PSYC 001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-5: Neophobia, Physical Attractiveness

• School: UPenn
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 001
• Professor: Caroline J.Connolly

Document Summary

Humans have a strong need for social contact, and various factors inluence how ppl select friends and mates. Situaional and personal factors inluence interpersonal atracion and. Scienists have ideniied certain physical characterisics that are found to be atracive in a partner: Proximity: how oten ppl come into contact b/c physically nearby ---> the more that ppl come into contact, the more likely they are to be friends o. As ppl are exposed to something more and more, they tend to like it more over ime. Someimes familiarity may breed contempt as we become more aware how diferent that person is from us. Ppl with similar aitudes, values, interests, backgrounds, and personaliies tend to like each other o. Matching principle - most successful couples tend to be physically similar. We can be friends/relaionships with those that are dissimilar, but usually these relaionships tend to be based on other similariies such as values, edu, and socioeconomic status.