Exam 10: Interpersonal Attraction: From First Impressions to Close Relationships

You are strongly attracted to Mario, and you very much want him to like you, too, but you're afraid that if you open your mouth, he won't like you.If you're too nervous to interact with Mario, you can take advantage of the mere exposure effect and

Sara is very popular and has several suitors.She doesn't really care much for any of them.Which one is most likely to be angry that Sara does not return her feelings?

Research has found that there is agreement across cultures concerning what constitutes an attractive face; that infants prefer photographs of attractive faces to unattractive ones and that they prefer the same faces that adults do; and that statistically average faces tend to be seen as attractive.These findings provide support for a(n) ________ interpretation of the importance of physical attractiveness.

Andersen and Bem (1981) conducted a variation of the getting-acquainted telephone study by Snyder, Elizabeth Tanke, and Berscheid (1977).Andersen and Bem provided attractive and unattractive photos of men to women who interacted with men at the other end of a telephone.What would you expect happened when the women thought that the men with whom they were speaking were the men in the photos?

According to Duck (1982), relationship dissolution doesn't happen all at once; instead, it is characterized by a series of stages.These stages are, in order:

Jeremy is about to go on a blind date set up by his friend Justin.Justin gave Jeremy a picture of Carol, his potential date, and she is very attractive.Jeremy is about to call Carol to make arrangements for the date and to get to know her a little better.Which of the following is most likely to occur, according to the experiment by Snyder, Tanke, and Berscheid (1977) regarding attractiveness and the self-fulfilling prophecy?

According to a survey presented in the text, which attachment style do most people have?

Which of the following adages most directly contradicts research findings on the propinquity effect?

Researchers (Wheeler & Kim, 1997) asked American, Canadian, and Korean students to rate the attractiveness of people in yearbook photographs, and to rate the people in the photographs on a number of personality dimensions.They found that ________ students were likely to associate attractiveness with ________.

According to social exchange theory, ________ refers to people's expectations about the rewards and punishments they are likely to receive in a particular relationship.

Feingold (1990) conducted a meta-analysis of a number of studies of the importance that men versus women placed on the physical attractiveness of potential partners.According to his findings, there tends to be a larger gender difference (such that men are more influenced by physical attractiveness) when ________ are being measured than when ________ are being measured.

Strangers were brought into a research lab and were instructed to discuss a personally meaningful topic in research conducted by Pryzbylski and Weinstein (2013).Most of the time, doing that activity fosters a sense of closeness among strangers who are meeting for the first time.In this research, that closeness did not occur.Why not?

Emma and Clark have some tough relationship issues to sort out.Based on the research by Misra and colleagues (2014), if they want to feel connected to one another and express the necessary amount of empathy during their discussion, what should they do?

Leandro tends to be happy when in relationships with others.However, right now, he's away from home and the absence of meaningful relationships is leading to

As the authors of your text explain, love is experienced differently in different cultures.For instance the Japanese term, amae, has no English equivalent, but can best be described as

Describe, in detail, the four stages of Duck's (1982) model of relationship dissolution (breaking up).Provide a running example in your description.

You are very sociable and outgoing; at a holiday party, you approach a quiet young woman standing alone in the corner.To break the ice, you discuss a number of "safe" topics: what the winter will be like, what new television shows are worth watching, and what books you've been reading lately.You both see eye-to-eye on a lot.After the conversation, you like the young woman.Based on a large number of social-psychological experiments, why is that so?

One explanation for why the Chinese have a concept of sorrowful or tragic love is the cultural belief of

Carla is involved in a romantic relationship with Jack.Her costs of the relationship are relatively low and her rewards are very high with this relationship.However, Carla has recently met Ted, and she believes that he could offer her a relationship with even higher rewards than Jack.According to social exchange theory, Carla is likely to

Consider the following quote from Hatfield and Rapson (1993): Does "dinner at an expensive restaurant on Monday balance out three nights of neglect due to a heavy workload"? In other words,