SMF204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eye Contact, Russ Feingold, Meta-Analysis
9 Dec 2013
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Looked at people who were more and less attractive and how they differ. Attractive people are more popular and more socially skilled. We like others who are similar to us. Age, race, ethnicity are common areas in which people match. We like people who have similar value systems and beliefs. Parenting and other hot button topics count as key value systems and factor in the scheme of matching. If people spend a lot of time together the more your physical impression of people will become desensitized to their flaws. If tim and billie who love each other both like pornography, then they are balanced. If tim approves of abortion but billie doesn"t, then they are unbalanced. Component theory: physiological arousal, labelling arousal e. g. , capilano bridge study of the men on the bridge half were approached by attractive female on scary bridge, others approached by male safe . Attraction = the amount of positive reinforcers.
