Interpersonal Attraction and Liking

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What is holding stereotypes based on?
Appearance
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What did Dion et al. (1972) assume about stereotypes?
What is beautiful is seen as good
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What was positively correlated with rated attractiveness (Penton-Voak et al., 2001)?
Symmetry
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When can female preferences of male faces vary (Penton-Voak & Perrett, 2000)?
Menstrual cycle
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In which menstrual phase, are women more likely to prefer masculine faces?
Follicular
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What is the mere exposure effect (Zajonc, 1968)?
Repeated contact with someone leads to positive feelings towards them
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What is the matching hypothesis (Walster & Walster, 1969)?
People attracted to others of the same level of attractiveness
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What is cognitive similarity (Byrne, 1971)?
People like others with similar attitudes and beliefs
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What is construct similarity (Kelly, 1955)?
People like others who have similar ways of viewing things
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How is the proportion of similarity worked out?
No. of topics they have similar views on/total no. of topics
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What does a high proportion of similarity suggest?
More attraction
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What is positive assortative mating?
Paired individuals are more similar than would be expected by chance
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What is balance theory?
Relationship between liking for another and attitude agreement
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What is social comparison theory?
Being similar to others provides validation of one's beliefs
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How does the evolutionary perspective explain similarity?
Adaptivity and security of associating with similar people
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What is the complementary needs hypothesis (Winch, 1958)?
Make up for personal deficiencies by choosing partner who are strong in them
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What is important in the early stages of a relationship?
Attitudinal similarity
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What is important in the later stages of a relationship?
Personality similarities
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What is not transforming the way we look at physical attractiveness?
Changing appearances
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Who suggested the halo effect?
Dion
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Who found that symmetry was positively correlated with attractiveness?
Penton-Voak et al
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Who proposed the mere exposure effect?
Zajonc
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Women who are rated as highly attractive usually have…
Child like features
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