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| Geographical nearness. Proximity (more precisely, "function distance") powerfully predicts liking. |
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| The tendency for novel stimuli to be liked more or rated more positively after the rater has been repeatedly exposed to them. |
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| The tendency for men and women to choose as partners those who are a "good match" in attractiveness and other traits. |
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| Physical-attractiveness stereotype |
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| The presumption that physically attraction people possess other socially desirable traits as well: What is beautiful is good. |
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| The popularly supposed tendency, in a relationship between two people, for each to complete what is missing in the other. |
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| The use of strategies, such as flattery, by which people seek to gain anothers favor. |
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| Reward theory of attraction |
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| The theory that we like those whose behavior is rewarding to us or whom we associate with rewarding events. |
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| A state of intense longing for union with another. Passionate lovers are absorbed in each other, feel ecstatic at attaining their partner's love and are disconsolate on losing it. |
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| Two-factor theory of emotion |
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| Arousal X its label= emotion |
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| The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined. |
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| Attachments rooted in trust and marked by intimacy. |
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| Attachments marked by a sense of one's own unworthiness and anxiety, ambivalence and possessiveness. |
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| An avoidant relationship style marked by distrust of others. |
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| an avoidant relationship style marked by fear of rejection. |
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| A condition in which the outcomes people receive from a relationship are proportional to that they contribute to it. Note: Equitable outcomes needn't always be equal in outcomes. |
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| intimacy, passion, and commitment |
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| revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others |
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| the tendency for one person’s intimacy of self-disclosure to match that of a conversational partner |
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