PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lie Detection, James W. Pennebaker, Suspension Bridge
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Propinquity: the person next door: propinquity or proximity, geographical nearness, married student"s apartments, why, more opportunity for interaction, mere exposure effect, more exposure, more liking (generally, familiarity breeds liking, mere exposure in the classroom, reversed-image photos. Mere exposure study on mirror images: friends prefer true print but individuals prefer reversed print. Physical attractiveness: how important are looks, beauty is only skin deep , what people say, lie detector test , blind date study, walster et al. (1966) Physical attractiveness: what is beautiful, evolutionary theory, cues for health and reproductive success, stereotypes about attractive people, the what is beautiful is good stereotype. Evolutionary theory: cross-cultural standards of beauty, agreement across cultures, ratings of photos of faces, average faces, arithmetic means of photos. Physical attractiveness: what is beautiful is good stereotype, especially for social competence, some truth to it, self-fulfilling prophecy, snyder, tanke and bercheid (1977)
