PSY220H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Physical Attractiveness, Normative Social Influence, Menopause
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Need to belong: motivation to bond with others in relationships that provide ongoing positive interactions. Functional distance how often people"s paths cross. Interaction allows individuals to explore their similarities, to sense one another"s liking and to perceive themselves as a social unit. Adaptive anticipatory liking increases the chance of a rewarding relationship. Mere-exposure effect: tendency for new stimuli to be liked more or rated more positively after the person has been repeatedly exposed to them. Adaptive predisposes our attractions and attachments and helped ancestors categorize things/people as familiar/safe or unfamiliar/possibly dangerous. Negative side nervousness of things that aren"t familiar. Familiarity doesn"t usually breed contempt but rather increase liking. We like ourselves more when we are the way we"re used to seeing ourselves. Ex: women were photographed and shown the actual picture as well as the mirror image of the photo. These women preferred the mirror image image they were used to seeing.
