5. THE AMERICAN HERITAGE COLLEGE DICTIONARY
A DEEP, TENDER FEELING
OF AFFECTION AND
SOLICITUDE TOWARD A
PERSON, SUCH AS THAT
ARISING FROM KINSHIP OR
A SENCE OF ONENESS. Synonyms: denote ffeling of warm
personal attachment or strong attraction
to another person.
6. Devotion is earnest, affectionate
dedication and implies selflessness
He was a leader who inspired devotion
Terms Associated with Love
DEVOTION
7. Fondness is strong liking or affection
She had a strong fondness for small
animals
Terms Associated with Love
FONDNESS
8. Infatuation is a foolish or extravagant attraction,
often of short duration
Their infatuation blinded them to their differences
Terms Associated with Love
Infatuation
9. FACTORS ATTRACTING PEOPLE
If we live in a dormitory or an apartment, consider the
friends who first move in. Chances are that we became
friendliest with those who live geographically closest to us. In
fact, this is one of the more firmly established findings in the
literature on interpersonal attraction
1. PROXIMITY
PROXIMITY LEADS TO LIKING
10. FACTORS ATTRACTING PEOPLE
Repeated exposure to a person is often sufficient to produce
attraction. Interestingly, repeated exposure to any stimulus -
a person, picture or virtually anything - usually makes us like
the stimulus more. Becomming familiar with a person can
evoke positive feelings.
MERE EXPOSURE
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2. MERE EXPOSURE
There are exception though. In case of strongly negative
initial interactions, repeated exposure is unlikely to cause us
to like a person more. Instead, the more we are exposed to
him or her, the more we may dislike the individual
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2. MERE EXPOSURE
There are exception though. In case of strongly negative
initial interactions, repeated exposure is unlikely to cause us
to like a person more. Instead, the more we are exposed to
him or her, the more we may dislike the individual
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3. SIMILARITY
Folk wisdom tells us that birds of a feather flocks together.
However, it also maintains that opposites attract. Social
psychologists have come up with a clear verdict regarding
which of the who statements are true. We tend to like those
who are similar to us
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3. SIMILARITY
Discovering that others have similar attitudes, values, or
traits promotes our liking for them. Furthermore, the more
similar others are, the more we like them. One reason
similarity increases the likelihood of interpersonal attraction
is that we assume people with similar attitudes will evaluate
us positively.
15. FACTORS ATTRACTING PEOPLE
3. SIMILARITY
Because we experience a strong reciprocity-of-liking effect ( a
tendency to like those who are like us), knowing that
someone evaluates us positively promotes our attraction to
that person. In addition, we assume that when we like
someone else, that person likes us in return.
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4. PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS
For most people, the equation is BEAUTIFUL = GOOD
This is quite true. As a result, physically attractive people are
more popular than physically unattractive ones, if all other
factors are equal. This finding, which contradicts the values
that most people say they hold, is apparent even in
childhood- with children of nursery school age rating their
peer’s popularity on the basis of attractiveness-continues into
adulthood.