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Interpersonal Attraction: Initial...
Chapter Objectives
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After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Provide an overview of the four key factors that need to be operating before individuals progress to the final stage of interpersonal attraction.
- Understand how proximity and repeated exposure can influence attraction (for better and sometimes worse).
- State the two most important characteristics of affect and note how emotions can influence attraction.
- Describe the need for affiliation including its key characteristics and modes of expression.
- Consider how and why people evaluate others on the basis of physical attractiveness—particularly from an evolutionary perspective. Offer an overview of the key sex differences in terms of how men and women evaluate attractiveness.
- Note the key features associated with physical attractiveness (irrespective of one's sex).
- Consider the degree to which certain stereotypes about physical attractiveness are accurate.
- Understand the role that similarity plays in attraction.
- Highlight the key predictions of balance theory.
- Explain the repulsion hypothesis and how it is viewed by most contemporary social psychologists.
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Conceptualize the overall themes of interpersonal attraction with particular emphasis on the role of the affect-centered model of attraction.
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