Behavioral Indicators of Interpersonal Attraction<sup>1</sup>

Baskett, Glen D.; Byrne, Donn; Hodges, Louis A.

doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1971.tb00358.x

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“…Conversations between new acquaintances meander through a variety of topics (Hobbs, 1990) about which they often establish common ground, converging in the content of their thoughts and feelings (Babcock, Ta, & Ickes, 2014; Deutsch & Mackesy, 1985; Hardin & Conley, 2001; Ickes, Tooke, Stinson, Baker, & Bissonnette, 1988; Kenny & Kashy, 1994; Ta, Babcock, & Ickes, 2017). Perceiving these shared inner states can play an important role in drawing people to each other initially, more so than perceiving shared characteristics, such as personality traits (Baskett, Byrne, & Hodges, 1971; Launay & Dunbar, 2015; Lydon, Jamieson, & Zanna, 1988; Montoya & Horton, 2013; Pinel, Long, Landau, Alexander, & Pyszczynski, 2006).…”

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Merged minds: Generalized shared reality in dyadic relationships.

Rossignac-Milon

Bolger

Zee

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Many everyday conversations, whether between close partners or strangers interacting for the first time, are about the world external to their relationship, such as music, food, or current events. Yet, the focus of most research on interpersonal relationships to date has been on the ways in which partners perceive each other and their relationship. We propose that one critical aspect of interpersonal interactions is developing a sense of dyadic, generalized shared reality—the subjective experience of sharing a set of inner states (e.g., thoughts, feelings, or beliefs) in common with a particular interaction partner about the world in general, including the world external to the relationship. Across 9 studies, we use mixed methods to investigate the unique role of generalized shared reality in interpersonal interactions, both between close partners and strangers. We hypothesize that generalized shared reality predicts how people connect with each other and perceive the world around them. We also investigate the observable, dyadic behavioral signatures of generalized shared reality in interpersonal interactions. Finally, we examine the motivation to uphold an existing sense of generalized shared reality. We hypothesize that couples high on baseline generalized shared reality exhibit motivated, dyadic interaction behaviors to reaffirm their generalized shared reality in the face of experimentally manipulated threat. By identifying a unique dimension of everyday interactions, these studies aim to capture a critical aspect of the lived subjective experience of human relationships that has not been captured before.

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Section: Generalized Shared Realitymentioning

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Merged minds: Generalized shared reality in dyadic relationships.

Rossignac-Milon

Bolger

Zee

et al. 2021

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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145

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“…The experimenter explained that the indicated chair should be moved relative to the extant chair 'so that the two participants could complete a social interaction task.' The placement of the participant's chair relative to the extant chair served as a behavioral measure of attraction (chair proximity; Byrne et al, 1971).…”

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People Do Not Always Act as Positively as They Feel: Evidence of Affiliation Suppression

Montoya

Sloat

2019

International Review of Social Psychology

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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!' (Goethe, 1891: 58) Goethe (1891) illustrates the emotional toll carried by a person who experiences attraction but does not act on those feelings. Though this quote was taken from a novel published in 1891, the phenomenon is timeless, and even in today's social world, daters often refrain from acting as positively as they feel (Spielmann, MacDonald & Tackett, 2012). Whereas models and definitions of attraction tend to assume a high degree of consonance between the subjective experience of attraction for another person (affective attraction) and how one acts toward the person (affiliative behavior), there is only a small but significant relation between the two (Montoya, Kershaw & Prosser, 2018). In this research, we investigated processes that produce such a discrepancy, what we call affiliation suppression, in which a person's behavioral response is restrained compared to his or her subjective experience. We begin by describing a model of interpersonal attraction that provides a framework for understanding when and why feelings and behavior diverge, and then we describe various psychological and situational processes that may account for a divergence. Discrepancy between Affective Attraction and Affiliative BehaviorAttraction is a process that motivates physiological, cognitive, and behavioral responses that regulate interdependent relationships. The two-dimensional model of attraction (TDMA; Montoya & Horton, 2012Montoya et al., 2018) proposes that interpersonal attraction assessments begin with the fundamental cognitive appraisals that guide the person perception process: willingness and ability. The willingness appraisal refers to the evaluation of the target person's benevolent orientation toward the perceiver. The ability appraisal refers to the perception of the target person's capacity to facilitate/hinder the perceiver's interests. These assessments combine to produce the subjective experience of attraction (i.e., affective attraction).The degree to which affective attraction aligns with the behavioral response is determined by considerations inherent to social exchanges. All types of interpersonal interactions, from the trivial (interacting with a bank teller) to the benign (a meeting between a student and faculty member during office hours) to the romantic (initiating a conversation at a discotheque) can be considered from within the social exchange framework. TDMA posits that the behavioral expression of attraction communicates trust, which acts to increase the likelihood that the target person adheres to the social exchange (Montoya et al., 2018). From this perspective, people smile, make eye contact, mimic, and laugh to signal their conditional willingness to cooperate during a social exchange. However, natural selection works against people whose behavior in a social exchange is unrestrictedly cooperative

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“…Individuals are more attracted to individuals who have attitudes similar to, rather than dissimilar from, their own (Byrne, 1961(Byrne, ,1971Byrne & Nelson 1965;Clore and Baldridge 1968;Condon & Crano 1988). Additionally, individuals sit closer to someone who shares their attitudes (Byrne, Baskett, & Hodges, 1971) and will spend more time fostering a student-mentor relation when the attitudes of student and mentor are similar (Turban, Thomas, & Lee, 2002). In short, the literature suggests a very strong link between similarity of attitudes and attraction.…”

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Behavioral Indicators of Interpersonal Attraction¹

Cited by 77 publications

References 28 publications

Merged minds: Generalized shared reality in dyadic relationships.

Merged minds: Generalized shared reality in dyadic relationships.

People Do Not Always Act as Positively as They Feel: Evidence of Affiliation Suppression

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