Affiliation, Attraction, and Intimacy Flashcards
What are the four factors that affect interpersonal attraction?
- Mere exposure
- Similarity
- Fallibility
- Reciprocity
This is “the tendency for people to come to like things simply because they see or encounter them repeatedly”
Mere exposure effect
The positive relationship between attitude similarity and attraction and that this relationship is due to the fact that interacting with people who have similar attitudes is reinforcing because it validates our views and produces good feelings. This is called…
Law of Attraction (Byrne, 1971)
According to _____ the attractiveness of a person who is perceived to be competent increases when that person commits a blunder, while the attractiveness of a person who is perceived to be mediocre decreases when he or she commits a blunder.
The pratfall effect
According the ____ (a) we’re more attracted to people who to the initially dislike us but then change their minds as they get to know us than we are to people who express constant liking for us and (b) we’re less attracted to people who initially like us and then change their minds than we are to people who express constant dislike for us.
Gain-loss effect
Kenny (1994) distinguishes between two types of reciprocity: _____ reciprocity refers to the degree to which “likers are more likeable” in general, while _____ reciprocity refers to the degree to which specific pairs of individuals like each other.
Generalized; dyadic
According to _____ strong emotions are elicited in close relationships when a partner interrupts the couple’s usual behavioral routines (sequences) because he or she engages in an unexpected behavior. This model also predicts that the elicitation of strong positive or negative emotions occurs less often in the later stages of a close relationship because a partner’s behaviors are less likely to be unexpected.
emotion-in-relationships model (Berscheid, 1991)
