PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Histocompatibility, Negative Feedback, Mirror Image

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

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You may like people because they have a good sense of humour, are trustworthy, etc: respond to their personal qualities. What are the components of a (cid:498)good(cid:499) personality: e. g. Sincere, honest, loyal, truthful etc: people like other people with good personalities more than fun personalities. So, the more positive traits a person has, the more attractive that person should be, right: trivia contest audition on audiotape (aronson et al. , 1966) Average student, mediocre audition, wrong answers (+ spills drink, is embarrassed) High achieving student, great audition, correct answers (+ spills drink, is embarrassed) Highest score of attraction: high achieving student, great audition, correct answer, spills drink and is embarrassed. The one without spilling drink is just seen as a smart person, and is still attractive but the one who spills has the highest score because there"s an additional quality, and the person isn"t completely perfect. (ow much other people"s qualities resemble those of our own may also.