PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Shy People, Physical Attractiveness, Shyness
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Others find that the less social contact people have, the lonelier they feel: people between the age of 18 and 30 are the loneliest. People that has lost their significant others are lonelier than the ones that have never been married. The initial attraction: people are attracted to others with whom a rewarding relationship seems possible. These awards can be direct or indirect: according to the principles of evolution, human beings all over the world exhibit patterns of attraction and mate selection that favor the conception, birth, and survival of their offspring. The single best predictor of whether two people will get together: the proximity effect: is physical proximity, the mere exposure effect: The phenomenon whereby the more often people are exposed to a stimulus, the more positively they evaluate the stimulus. Individuals prefer mirror images of themselves whereas; their friends prefer the photographs better.