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 it found
Pairs of strangers assigned to chat one, two, four, six or eight times liked each other more the more often they had talked. The effect ran through feeling responded to, feeling comfortable, and feeling they knew the other person.
What it does not show
Two experiments with same-sex student strangers — 48 face to face, and 110 pairs assigned one to eight online chats. Participants had to complete a set number of conversations for credit, so nobody could stop after a bad first one, and the authors note the sample was similar enough that pre-existing similarity may have helped.
And where we carry it further
Same-sex student pairs who had to complete a set number of conversations for credit. Nobody in the study could walk away after a bad first one, which is precisely what a regular can do.
Where we rely on it
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