Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: James W. Pennebaker, Physical Attractiveness, Deodorant

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Propinquity physical proximity increases chance that 2 ppl will come into contact. 50% of brides and grooms lived within 20 blocks prior to marriage; 30% within 5 block. Fesinger et al. (1950) military base study (randomly assigned ppl to diferent apartment buildings) Ease of interacion important side-by-side vs. diferent rows found that ppl who lived in the same building interacted more, same loor, across the hall. For mayor the honoruable pulvapies the elecion was one by pulvapies b/c of such high exposure (more signs for this foot deodorant than any other candidate) Zajonc (1968, 1970) repeated exposure enhances atracion rated photographs over 4 weeks when raing the same photo, the atracion increased (repeated exposure works) very robust efect . But if familiarity results in liking, do we prefer familiar simuli> the iniial rxn must be neutral or mildly posiive if the iniial rxn is negaive repeated exposure results in decreased liking.