PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Howa, Okcupid
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Mere exposure: encountering other people allows for and encourages formation of new. Of course, encountering others also makes it possible to dislike: knowing that we will interact with someone in the future makes us like. Fluency: easier to process information about familiar stimuli, pleasant feelings associated with more fluent processing, repeated exposure to a stimulus without any negative consequence. Classical conditioning makes the stimulus more pleasant. Signals that the stimuli is safe and non-threatening. Rats raised on schoenberg prefer schoenberg, those raids on. Friends and romantic partners tend to be similar in beliefs and other characteristics (attractiveness, intelligence, socioeconomic status, and so on: a study of romantic couples found that couples were more similar on. 66 of 88 different traits than people paired at random. On no characteristic were romantic couples more dissimilar than random pairs. Studies find that we report greater liking of even fictitious people if we see them as more similar to ourselves.
