3 - Drawing People Together: Forces Of Social Attraction

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Assimilation effect

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The idea that people benefit (gain attention) from being around physically attractive others

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Androgynous

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Displaying a mix of feminine and masculine behaviors and beliefs

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Attachment styles

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Social interaction styles that reflect the kind of bond an individual has with someone, based on how positively or negatively individuals view themselves and others

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Complementarity

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Differences in behavior, attitudes, or values between two people in a relationship

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Destiny beliefs

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People’s belief that they and their romantic partner are meant for each other and that first impressions about that destiny are fixed and enduring

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Excitation transfer

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Occurs when emotions caused by one event spill over onto and influence the evaluation of a second event that occurs very soon thereafter

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Fatal attraction

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When the very qualities that draw us to someone eventually contribute to the relational breakup

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Growth beliefs

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Beliefs that impressions of others and attractions to others evolve over time, and that people and relationships grow when faced with challenges

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Halo effect

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The process whereby people think another person has favorable qualities based on another irrelevant quality (e.g. people who are attractive are smart)

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Implicit egotism

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We are attracted to others based on similarity on arbitrary things, such as names and birthdates

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Interaction appearance theory

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The perspective that explains why people perceive others as more physically attractive if they have warm, positive interactions with them

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Loss-gain effect

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Attraction lessons when a person’s behavior moves from positive to negative; in fact, people are less attracted to those who initially enact positive behavior and then enact negative behavior than they are to those who consistently enact negative behavior

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Matching hypothesis

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Our tendency to be attracted to people who are similar to us in terms of level of attractiveness

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Narcissism

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A personality trait that involves a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, self-focus, and self-importance

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Physical attraction

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Being drawn to people’s looks, including someone’s body, eyes, hair, attire, or other aspects of a person’s appearance

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Reinforcement affect model

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Certain types of environments make people feel good, and people unconsciously associate those good feelings with the people with whom they are interacting in the environment

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Reinforcement model

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A perspective used to explain that people are attracted to similar others in part because similarity reinforces and validates our beliefs and values

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“Romeo & Juliet” effect

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The notion that parental interference or disapproval of their children’s romantic relationship can strengthen the attraction between those two people

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Sexual attraction

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The desire to engage in sexual activity with someone, typically accompanied by feelings of sexual arousal in the presence of the person

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Social attraction

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The feeling that we would like to “hang out” with someone

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Task attraction

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People’s attraction to someone is based on their perception that the person would be good to work with