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Internal factors
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Emotions
Affect influences:
Perceptions
Cognitions
Motivations
Decision making
Interpersonal attraction
Positive affect leads to liking, and negative affect leads to
disliking
The better mood you are in, the more likely you are to like
someone
Resisting emotional influence
dominance
External sources
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Proximity
Bossard (1932)
Social
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Composite faces
An "average" face is more beautiful
Symmetrical faces
attractivness
Gender
Physical attractiveness is more important to men
Situational Factors
Arousing situations increase need for affiliation
Alcohol
Newcomb (1956)
Transfer students who had never met before were
Rosenbaum (1986)
The Repulsion Hypothesis
Balance Theory
People naturally organize their likes and dislikes in
a symmetrical way
When people like each other and they discover they
nonbalance
Discovering similarities or difference doesnt
People tend to get with other people who they think have
a similar level of attractiveness as them
Example:
People in the US prefer people who are more
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Romantic relationships
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Marriage