Familiarity Does Indeed Promote Attraction in Live Interaction
Reis, Maniaci, Caprariello, Eastwick & Finkel (2011) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(3)
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What the study found
Pairs of strangers were told to chat one, two, four, six or eight times. The more often they had talked, the more they liked each other. The effect came from feeling responded to, feeling comfortable, and feeling that they knew the other person.
What the study cannot prove
These were two experiments with students of the same sex who did not know each other: 48 met face to face, and 110 pairs were told to chat online between one and eight times. Participants had to complete a set number of conversations for course credit, so nobody could stop after a bad first one. The authors note that the participants were similar to each other, which may have helped.
Limits we note on the exercises
The pairs were students of the same sex who had to complete a set number of conversations for course credit. Nobody in the study could walk away after a bad first conversation, and a regular can.
Where we use it
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