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Attraction and Formation of Relationships
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Attraction and Formation of Relationships. As is common in many areas of psychology, theories about interpersonal attraction are based on numerous studies. A similarity found in the majority of these studies is that they all try to quantify attraction in terms of the values of what we have to offer of which we receive. To do so is to apply objectivity on our emotions towards others and as we all know, our actions and emotions are not always objective. They can often be irrational and unrelated to what we might loose or gain. In my opinion this automatically compromises the validity of such studies. Clore and Bryne (1974) provide us with a simple study from which to start. They state that we are attracted to people whose presence is rewarding to us. They define rewards in terms of several positive factors including; exposure, proximity, familiarity, complementarily and competence. Based on their...
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