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James Andrei T. Villanueva
MARCH 2024
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
relationships perform less well academically than their counterparts who are
not in relationships, and they are also less likely to experience unpleasant
young adults also develop crushes while in college and know how to separate
their relationships.
O’Sullivan et al. (2021) said that crushes are an unspoken, one-sided
relationships the researcher connects a study by Adam (2019) that said over
A study by Mrkva and Van Boven (2020) suggested that the effects of
absolute exposure. This salience theory also implies that, in addition to liking,
mere exposure and liking since we can understand how relationships and
amongst college students. By being familiar with one another we get to know
what the other person likes or dislikes. The aim of this study is to find out the
students.
words. Each word appeared 0 times, 1 time, 5 times, 10 times, or 2,000 times.
Consequently, terms with favourable ratings for five, ten, and twenty-five
exposures scored better than terms with zero, one, or two exposures. Since
then, studies in gustatory, olfactory, visual, and auditory modalities have all
shown the mere exposure effect. the well accepted finding that following
2021). This study will focus on how mere exposure and liking play when it
Manila.
whereby getting to know one another, we learn about one another's likes and
Definition of Terms
The following are the conceptual and operational definitions of the variables
said that crushes are unspoken, one-sided attraction to a single person, often
This chapter discusses the variables that were used in the research.
Mere Exposure
preference for familiarity over novelty. This theory was created by Robert
five, ten, and twenty-five exposures with a positive rating were higher than
Since then, the mere exposure effect has been demonstrated in multiple
repeated exposure is known as the mere exposure (ME) effect. Van Dessel et
al. (2019) said that the majority of studies conducted on the impacts of ME to
prejudice and food preferences a large body of research has looked at the
liking and choice preference measures; however, very few studies have looked
at the effects of ME on automatic, or implicit, stimulus evaluations as
for the effects of mere exposure. This salience explanation also suggests that
addition to liking.
One study done by Grybinas et al. (2019) said that traditional ideas
types of memory judgment. In these cases, the degree to which the memory
refute the initial search are more likely to influence affective responses than
interactions between Baby Schema and Mere Exposure (MRE) effects that
appear when looking at the faces of adults and children. It was demonstrated
more attentive to baby faces than adult faces when both MRE and BS are
present at the same time. However, because Caucasian and Chinese faces are
more familiar to them, the responses are opposite (constriction vs. dilation). In
recruitment than ingroup adult faces. A study done by Kuhn and Modrek
(2021) investigated whether mere exposure to dialogic framing would have a
higher level of commitment to the task. Furthermore, even though they weren't
told to, 78% of the dialog group mentioned the viewpoints they had read, with
time consistently had lower predictability and that there was no statistically
different intervals and showed a rise in liking, older adults' recall for this kind
al. (2021) They evaluated the mood induction in addition to the MEE in each
condition. All three of the MEE's accounts produced different predictions, but
the data did not provide strong evidence for any of the accounts. Experiments
on mood induction showed that the induction methods were effective, and the
MEE was consistently observed suggesting that mood did not influence the
MEE, at least not in the current preparation. Lastly, according to a study done
healthy.
Liking
desire, As said by (Selterman et al., 2020) A crush is more than just noticing
person and, on some level, needing to control the pull that attraction entails,
repeated exposure affects judgments is that it helps stimuli stand out from
and Couve (2021) said that crushes most frequently happen in the formative
themselves and other people as gendered, sexual beings because these are
frequently complex issues that are hard for kids to understand and hard for
adults to witness.
cards has been created to bring study results back to life and remain aware of
the methods in which young people and children get caught up in and make
their way through intricate assemblages of gender and sexuality that are both
and fervent speech. Individuals are the ones who post a lot on these pages who
believe they are the only ones who exhibit a specific loving behavior or
romance until the position is on a case that is comparable to your own and has
experience a romantic crush and do not receive a reciprocal response. They are
the development of human sexualities and cultures passing via. In the end, five
asexuality stimuli.
the various shades of their close relationships—which can range from brief to
Cherry (2023) said that who you are attracted to can change just by
being exposed to something. You might find someone more attractive just by
spending more time with them. This is occasionally the cause of people having
someone wants the person they are in love with to notice them, they can also
take advantage of this. Just giving the person you like more time could be
This could have a big impact on what it's like to be in love because
being around someone often can make you want them more, judge them
exposure, which is the amount of time spent exposed to one stimulus relative
produces greater liking. Accordingly, people are more likely to form feelings
for them if they are exposed to them more frequently than other people
Mere Exposure has already been studied in fact there are numerous
studies that study mere exposure ranging from baby face schema, preferred
effect has been observed across different sensory modalities such as gustatory,
olfactory, visual, and aural stimuli. There are also many variations of liking
shown in the studies that liking someone doesn’t vary only in teenagers but
evaluation.
liking someone and how mere exposure is responsible for showcasing how
liking is built. Studying the relationship between mere exposure and liking is
We learn each other's preferences and dislikes by getting to know one another.
The purpose of this study is to be able to study how mere exposure
analysis.
Participants
The Central Limit Theorem is the basis for the research's target
research, this suggests using at least 150 samples (David, 1938). The
categories are to be considered when taking the survey, (1) The respondent
must be close to or have a relationship with their friend whom they believe
they like. (2) The respondent must be a first to fourth-year college student
study.
accessibility. The library and classrooms, which see the highest volume of
student traffic throughout the university, should be the main locations for
person who completes the survey will have a draw and will have a chance to
win GCash.
Measures
questionnaire on how students are familiar with their friend who they like and
item on how well the student is familiar with their friend who they like, on a
scale of 1 to 5 will be given 5 being familiar at all and 1 being not familiar at
all.
Rubin’s Love and Liking Scale. The second part of the questionnaire
containing the 13-item love and liking measures, with their component
couples who were dating but not engaged. The couples were found using
posters and newspaper ads. Apart from the love and liking measures, which
were initially to be completed for one's dating partner and then for a close
friend of the same sex, the questionnaire also included other personality scales
completed the survey on their own, and they received S1 as payment for their
participation. Each item on the love and liking scales was scored on a
individual items. The modal couple was a junior man and a sophomore or
junior woman who had been dating for approximately a year. The scale is
caring people are for their partner's welfare. This subscale may contain items
such as "I really enjoy doing things for my partner" or "I would almost do
"I feel like my partner knows me very well" or "I am very happy with my
Procedure
page for to draw in more participants and give people an idea of the purpose of
the study. Regarding the second page, there is a consent form that participants
must sign and acknowledge. initials before moving on to the actual questions.
student is familiar with the friend they like. The second questionnaire will
contain Rubin’s Love and Liking Scale. Data collection will take
the survey. After the data is collected with verification the researcher will then
Data Analysis
memory judgment. In these cases, the degree to which the memory judgment
is easily made and whether the memory conclusions support or refute the
initial search are more likely to influence affective responses than the
materials' fluency.
Memory could affect the judgment since the participant might not be
that familiar or close to the friend that they like causing a lapse in judgment.
Consequently, this may lead to the decline of reliability and precision of data
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