PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Physical Attractiveness, Classical Conditioning, Sunk Costs
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Rules of attraction: propinquity (physical/psychological/functional distance, one of the biggest predictors of whether people become friends or romantic partners is actual physical proximity. Effects of proximity are based more on functional distance than physical distance: how people encounter and interact with each other is more important than just living near another person, explanation of proximity effects. Anticipating interactions more liking of the stimulus. Fluency: easier to process information about familiar stimuli, pleasant feelings associated with more fluent processing. Not much evidence for the idea of complementarity, that people seek out partners with different characteristics to balance out their own. Complementarity; the tendency for people to seek out others with characteristics that are different from and that compliment there own. Even in cases where partners may seem like opposites in some domains, they are likely to have many more overall similarities than differences: how similarity promotes attraction.
