![]() ![]() Friends in the Dorm: The Power of Proximity Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1(6), 659-663. Attraction as a linear function of proportion of positive reinforcements. (Turns out that similarity is VERY important.)ġByrne, D., & Nelson, D. ![]() This study laid the foundation for hundreds of subsequent studies into the importance of similarity in attraction. They discovered that proportion of similarity is more important than overall number of similar attitudes, such that it is more important to be similar on 7 out of 10 traits (i.e., 70%), rather than 30 out of 200 traits (i.e., 15%). The researchers altered the scales to manipulate how similar the bogus stranger was to the participant and how many attitudes appeared on the scale. 1To do this, researchers asked over 150 participants to read an questionnaire about attitudes (e.g., attitudes about premarital sex, television shows, etc.) allegedly completed by another participant, or what researchers refer to as a “bogus stranger,” then rate the attraction toward the bogus stranger. An early study on attraction assessed whether rewards were associated with how similar to people are. Similarity: Liking Others Who Are Like UsĪt the heart of attraction is the idea that we like being with people who provide rewarding and positive interactions. Here are some of the “giants” or classic works in attraction research:ġ. ![]() Inevitably, current research stands on the shoulders of giants. Yet, the nature of science is that it continually builds on findings from previous research. Most of the time our articles focus on current, cutting edge studies. ![]()
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