PSY220H1 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Notes
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Chapter 10: humans have a need to belong, being ostracized excluded or ignored activates physical pain areas in the brain, i. e. ostracism is a real pain . 4 factors that lead to friendship and attraction: proximity. It is not geographical distance that matters, but functional distance - how often people"s paths cross. Proximity explains why identical twins very rarely fall for each other"s partners (b/c they simply don"t interact with them often enough). Study: when women were given ambiguous info about two other women, one of whom they expected to talk with intimately, the women preferred her: anticipatory liking increases the chance of a rewarding relationship. Mere exposure: the tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more or rated more positively after the rater has been repeatedly exposed to them, e. g. This is called the: asset-matching process e. g. when an attractive young woman marries an older man of higher status.
