Exam 21: Social Influence and Attraction

In a study of the mere exposure effect using online chatting, participants who were randomly assigned to chat with the same partner for a greater number of consecutive days

When Stanley Milgram asked a group of psychiatrists how many of the research participants in his obedience studies would deliver shocks all the way to the XXX level, they predicted that between 62 percent and 65 percent of participants would comply.

Spearman (1927) conceived love of consisting of

Holt-Lunstad estimated that the detrimental influence on health for lack of social contact equates to

People often find themselves drawn to others-for friendship, romance, or sex-for reasons that may not be immediately apparent to either person. This is called

This effect explains the tendency for behaviours that are exhibited when one is alone to be minimised in the presence of others

Social psychologists refer to the tendency to seek mates who are similar to ourselves as

When couples were asked to report how they met each other in a 2009 survey, online dating and social networking sites were second only to this reason for meeting.

All of the following are tendencies of masculine faces, EXCEPT:

We often feel strong pressures to conform to the group that we identify with. Discuss the various influences (normative and informational) on our behaviour, and how they might lead to groupthink and deindividuation.

_ is the product of the factors that draw one person towards another for friendship, sex, romance, or another sort of relationship

Like it or not, a great deal-a very great deal-of self-presentation occurs over the Internet in ______.

In a study of the normative influence on energy conservation among a group of Californians, this was the best predictor of a person's self-reported conservation efforts.

This theory is an explanation for a range of social-psychological phenomena based on the idea that we are influenced in attitudes and behaviour by the norms of social categories with which we identify.

The tendency to mate with a person who is similar to you in various characteristics is known as ______.

As the __________effect predicted, participants' liking for each other increased as a function of the number of days they engaged in the chat routines.

Developed by Tajfel and colleagues in the 1970s the __________experimental paradigm involves creating artificial social categories and testing members' responses to members of in-groups and out-groups.

Triplett (1898) found that children wound up a fishing reel faster in pairs than alone. This is an example of __________- when behaviour or performance is enhanced by the presence of others.

The echo chamber effect takes place when

Which of the following is true regarding the variation in peak facial attractiveness between men and women