Attraction

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Attraction
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Initial Factors in the Attraction Process

• Repeated Contact leads to Attraction
• Attraction Hinges on Affect (emotions)
• Responding to observable Features
• Similarity and Attraction
• Reciprocity

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Repeated Contact leads to Attraction

• Familiar faces evoke positive feelings
• Zajonc (1968)Repeated Exposure
• Moreland and Beach (1992)
• Additional research

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Attraction Hinges on Affect

• Our emotional state at any given moment
  influences behavior
• Two most important characteristics are intensity
  and direction
• Positive feelings lead to positive evaluations
• Kleinke, Meeker and Staneski ( 1986)

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Attraction Hinges on Affect

• Affect-Centered Model of Attraction
• relationships are fairly predictable if not
  always reasonable.
• Affect can easily be conditioned
• Stigmas

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Responding to observable Features

• Physical Attractiveness
• Evolutionary model
• Learned stereotypes
• What Physical features constitute attractiveness
• Cunningham (1986)
• Langlois and Roggman (1990)
• Other Cues that Influence Attraction

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Similarity and Attraction

• Attitude, similarity and attraction
• Why do similar and dissimilar attitudes influence
  attraction?
• Balance TheoryNewcomb (1961)
• Social Comparison Theory Festinger (1954)
• Matching HypothesisSir Francis Galton1870

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Opening Lines Good and Bad
Attraction Hinges on Affect