Weblinks

http://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc530/attraction.html

http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/elifinkel/documents/InPress_FinkelEastwick_HBPersSocPsych_ 000.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ2fgh-1__o

http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_aronson_socpsych_6/64/16428/4205823.cw/-/4205877/index.html

Suggested Readings

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Backman, C. W. & Secord, P. F. (1959). The effect of perceived liking on interpersonal attraction. Human Relations. 12, 379-384.

Baron, R. A., Branscombe, N. R., Byrne, D. & Bhardwaj, G. (2009). Social Psychology (12th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education, Inc.

PSYCHOLOGY PAPER No.7: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Know More MODULE No.18: INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION

Berscheid, E. & Hatfield, E. (1969). Interpersonal attraction. New York: Addison-Wesley.

Bossard, J. H.S. (1932). Residential Propinquity as a Factor in Marriage Selection. American Journal of Sociology, 38 (2), 219-224.

Byrne, D. & Nelson, D. (1965) Attraction as a linear function of proportion of positive reinforcements, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1: 659-63.

Carvallo, M., & Gabriel, S. (2006). No man is an island: The need to belong and dismissive avoidant attachment style. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 697−709.

Interesting facts!

 Physically attractive people receive more assistance and self-disclosure from others!  A study by Burkley and Parker (2009) found that 59% of women tested were interested in pursuing a relationship with an "ideal" single man (it was unknown to the women that this man was fictitious). When they believed the "ideal" man already was already in a romantic relationship, 90% of the women were interested in a romantic relationship!  People are attracted to faces similar to their own. Case studies have revealed that when a photograph of a woman was superimposed to include the features of a man's face, the man whose face was superimposed almost always rated that picture the most attractive!

Did You Know?

Description Image According to a dating expert, Tian (2012) "Ninety per cent of what we consider as attractive does not come from conscious calculation, but from rapid, unconscious cognitions and split second judgments of sub-communications"!

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Common Misconceptions PSYCHOLOGY PAPER No.7: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Know More MODULE No.18: INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION

“Opposites attract!” There is strong research evidence that similarity and not complementarity is the basis of attraction. There is little evidence that complementarity is important.

"What is beautiful is good"! Physical attractiveness is mostly equated with goodness which may not always be necessarily true.

Biography

Stanley Schachter was born in New York City in 1922. He received the B.S. and M.A. from Yale in 1942 and 1944 respectively. In 1946 Schachter went to MIT to work with the famous social psychologist Kurt Lewin in his Research Center for Group Dynamics. After Lewin’s death, the research center moved to the University of Michigan and therefore Schachter received the Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1949. Alongwith his dissertation supervisor Leon Festinger and Henry Riecken, he wrote the book When Prophecy Fails in 1956.

Stanley Schachter

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He joined the Columbia University faculty as professor of psychology in 1961. He was named Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Social Psychology in 1966 and retired in 1992 with an emeritus designation. PSYCHOLOGY PAPER No.7: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Know More MODULE No.18: INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION

Stanley Schachter had a broad interest in the study of social behavior. He studied varied social phenomena like misattribution of arousal, the causes of overeating and obesity and the physiological basis for nicotine addiction. In each domain he conducted various creative and thought-provoking experiments. In a series of famous experiments, Schachter demonstrated that anxiety is an important determinant of affiliation. Subjects were informed that they would be receiving either painful electric shocks or mild, nonpainful stimulation. The subjects were then asked if they wanted to wait alone or with other subjects while the equipment was being prepared. Those who were most anxious expressed the desire to affiliate. Schachter explained that the major reason for the relationship between anxiety and affiliation is the desire to communicate one’s feelings to others and to make interpersonal comparisons. Interestingly, he also found that anxious people preferred to wait with others who also expected to receive shock. This showed that misery loves company but only miserable company.

Major Publications

Schachter, S. (1951) Deviation, rejection and communication. J Abnorm and Social Psychology. 46:190-207.

Schachter, S. Festinger, L. & Riecken, H. (1956). When Prophecy Fails. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Schachter, S (1959). The Psychology of Affiliation. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Schachter, S. & Singer J. (1962). Cognitive, social and physiological determinants of emotional state. Psychological Review. 69, 379-99.

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