PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Social Exchange Theory, Physical Attractiveness
6 Aug 2012
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Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Social psychologists focus not ony on the dark side of social relationships, but also on the bright side, by studying prosocial behaviour behaviour that intends to help or benefit someone. Does familiarity breed contempt or does it intensify affection. Let"s consider three ingredients of our liking for one another: proximity, attractiveness, and similarity. Proximity: proximity geographic nearness is friendship"s most powerful predictor. Proximity breeds liking partly because of the mere exposure effect. Repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases our liking for them nonsense syllables, musical selections, geometric figures, chinese characters, human faces, letters of our own name. Taiwanese man who wrote more than 700 letters to his girlfriend she married the mail carrier. Ancestors: what was familiar was safe and approachable. Online matchmaking and speed dating: men are more transparent.
