PSYC 2P30 Study Guide - Final Guide: Equity Theory, Averageness, Physical Attractiveness

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2P30
• Professor: Dawn Good

Document Summary

Seeing and interacting with people more likely they will be our friends, romantic partners. Propinquity works because of familiarity and the more exposure effect. Festinger,schachter, and back (1950) look at the propinquity effect. Functional distance refers to architectural design that determined who you cross paths with. Mere exposure effect the more exposure we have to a stimuli, the more apt we are to like it. Planted a female in a large university classroom. The female did not interact with either professors/students. The female would differ in the number of class (15-0 classes) At the end of the semester students were asked to rate how much they like/attractive. The more the female were saw, the higher the ratings. Similarity attraction to people who are like us in their attitudes, values, hobbies, personality. Studies have found that similarity is in important predictor for friendships and relationships. We tend to believe that people who are similar to us will like us more.