| A | B |
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| Proximity | Geographical nearness. (more precisely, “functional distance”) Powerfully predicts liking |
| Functional Distance | How often people’s paths cross |
| Anticipatory Liking | Expecting that someone will be pleasant and compatible—increases the chance of forming a rewarding relationship |
| Mere-Exposure Effect | The tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more rated more positively after the rater has been repeatedly exposed to them |
| Matching Phenomenon | The tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are a “good match” in attractiveness and other traits |
| Physical-Attractiveness Stereotype | The presumption that physically attractive people possess other socially desirable traits as well: What is beautiful is good |
| Complementarity | The popularly supposed tendency, in a relationship b/w two people, for each to complete what is missing in the other |
| Ingratiation | The use of strategies, such as flattery, by which people seek to gain another’s favor |
| Reward Theory of Attraction | The theory that we like those whose behavior is with rewarding events |
| Passionate Love | A state of intense longing for union w/ another. Passionate lovers are absorbed in each other, feel ecstatic at attaining their partner’s love, and are disconsolate on losing it |
| Two-Factor Theory of Emotion | (Arousal x its label = emotion) argue that when the revved-up men responded to a woman, they easily misattributed some of their own arousal to her |
| Compassionate Love | The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined |
| Secure Attachment | Attachments rooted in trust and marked by intimacy |
| Avoidant Attachment | Attachments marked by discomfort over, or resistance to, being close to others |
| Insecure Attachment | Attachments marked by anxiety or ambivalence |
| Equity | A condition in which the outcomes people receive from a relationship are proportional to what they contribute to it |
| Self-Disclosure | Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others |
| Disclosure Reciprocity | The tendency for one person’s intimacy of self-disclosure to match that of a conversational partner |
