I Feel Like I Know You: Sharing Negative Attitudes of Others Promotes Feelings of Familiarity  

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Weaver, Jonathan R. ; Bosson, Jennifer K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 37 no. 4 (Apr. 2011), page 481-491.
Topik: Attitudinal Similarity; Balance Theory; Closeness; Interpersonal Relationships
Fulltext: PSPB_37_04_481.pdf (772.53KB)

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Holding similar negative—versus positive—attitudes toward a third party has been shown to predict increased closeness to a stranger. Here, the authors examined whether this effect is mediated by the heightened feelings of familiarity engendered by shared negative attitudes. In Study 1, participants who shared with a (bogus) stranger a negative attitude of a professor subsequently reported knowing more about the stranger than those who shared a positive attitude, but only when they did not feel strongly about the attitude. In Study 2, a familiarity manipulation produced high levels of closeness among participants who believed they had a lot of information about a stranger. Among those who believed they knew little about the stranger, closeness was facilitated by sharing a weakly held, negative attitude of a professor. Discussion considers the relevance of these findings to the interpersonal attraction literature.

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