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Attitudes and Attraction
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This article described research on interpersonal attraction in relation to a philosophy of science in terms of the historical antecedents and current developments, and discussed a possible research paradigm for the study of attitude similarity-dissimilarity and attraction has been discussed.Abstract:
Publisher Summary This chapter describes research on interpersonal attraction in relation to a philosophy of science in terms of the historical antecedents and current developments. The co relational studies of attraction and similarity of attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and values have essentially involved attempts to determine the validity and to extend the generality of this formulation. With minor variations, these studies involved the identification of pairs of individuals who indicate mutual attraction (spouses, fiances, and sociometrically identified friends), an assessment of these individuals on one or more attitudinal measures, and a statistical determination of the pairs' similarity. Often, this similarity is evaluated not only in terms of departure from a theoretical base line of chance pairings but also by comparison with the similarity of random pairs or mutually antagonistic pairs from the same population. The study of attitude similarity between pairs of friends has fed to results parallel to those involving married couples. Misunderstandings and confusions about research goals and research methods in personality and social psychology occur frequently. There are several issues involved when research interest moves from “real-life” studies closely tied to naturalistic observations into laboratory research in which some variables are manipulated and others controlled. A possible research paradigm for the study of attitude similarity–dissimilarity and attraction has been discussed. The chapter also mentions the generality of the similarity–attraction relationship and theory of attraction as reinforcement model.read more
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