Meeting Your Match: How Attractiveness Similarity Affects Approach Behavior in Mixed-Sex Dyads

Straaten, Ischa van; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Finkenauer, Catrin; Holland, Rob W.

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“…Here, the participants were seated facing each other. Behind each chair was a lamp containing a hidden camera that was directed at the face of the participant sitting on the opposing chair (see Van Straaten, Engels, Finkenauer, & Holland, 2009). These lamps were approximately 6 feet apart (1.85 m).…”

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Loneliness and the social monitoring system: Emotion recognition and eye gaze in a real‐life conversation

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Goossens

Engels

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British J of Psychology

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Based on the belongingness regulation theory (Gardner et al., 2005, Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull., 31, 1549), this study focuses on the relationship between loneliness and social monitoring. Specifically, we examined whether loneliness relates to performance on three emotion recognition tasks and whether lonely individuals show increased gazing towards their conversation partner's faces in a real-life conversation. Study 1 examined 170 college students (Mage = 19.26; SD = 1.21) who completed an emotion recognition task with dynamic stimuli (morph task) and a micro(-emotion) expression recognition task. Study 2 examined 130 college students (Mage = 19.33; SD = 2.00) who completed the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test and who had a conversation with an unfamiliar peer while their gaze direction was videotaped. In both studies, loneliness was measured using the UCLA Loneliness Scale version 3 (Russell, 1996, J. Pers. Assess., 66, 20). The results showed that loneliness was unrelated to emotion recognition on all emotion recognition tasks, but that it was related to increased gaze towards their conversation partner's faces. Implications for the belongingness regulation system of lonely individuals are discussed.

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Loneliness and the social monitoring system: Emotion recognition and eye gaze in a real‐life conversation

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Goossens

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British J of Psychology

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“…But because such peers reject them, depressed individuals lower their standards and accept friendships with others who are depressed. Depressed individuals' partner selection behavior is thus at odds with their preferences (van Straaten et al 2009). Withdrawal.…”

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Misery Does Not Love Company

Schaefer¹,

2011

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Conventional wisdom holds that friends protect against depression through the social support they provide; however, depression likely has a role in structuring friendship networks. In particular, we investigate friend selection mechanisms responsible for similarity in depression among friends (i.e., homophily). Preference is one explanation, yet several correlates of depression make homophilous selection among depressed individuals unlikely. We propose two alternative mechanisms-avoidance and withdrawal-that can produce depression homophily in the absence of preference. These alternative mechanisms create homophily indirectly by limiting friendship partners available to depressed individuals. We test the preference, avoidance, and withdrawal mechanisms using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and a dynamic network model. Results provide support for the withdrawal mechanism. These findings help explain how depression affects friend selection and have broader implications for understanding selection mechanisms responsible for network patterns such as homophily.

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“…Since the participants were Chinese, only Southeast Asian faces were used. Only same-sex faces were presented to the participants because gazes by the opposite sex are often confused with many other factors, such as mate selection preferences or romance (Feingold, 1991). Another 10 photographs of the same faces were generated by changing the gaze direction parameter in FaceGen to “look at the right.” Thus, for each participant the same five faces were presented for two conditions (direct gaze vs. averted gaze).…”

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Implicit Perceptions of Closeness From the Direct Eye Gaze

2019

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Eye gaze plays an important role during social interaction. Specifically, different eye gaze directions may send different functional messages to the observers, who have the capacity to automatically interpret these signals. In the present study, we used the implicit association test (IAT) to investigate whether direct eye gaze sends a functional, automatically perceived signal about non-target interpersonal closeness. Results suggest that the direct gaze strongly signals close relationship, and this association cannot be accounted for by positive valence. The findings suggest that the direct gaze may function to uniquely communicate a generalized closeness without orientation. Discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for social functions of direct gaze during interpersonal interaction and the automatic nature of such associations.

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Meeting Your Match: How Attractiveness Similarity Affects Approach Behavior in Mixed-Sex Dyads

Cited by 35 publications

References 64 publications

Loneliness and the social monitoring system: Emotion recognition and eye gaze in a real‐life conversation

Loneliness and the social monitoring system: Emotion recognition and eye gaze in a real‐life conversation

Misery Does Not Love Company

Implicit Perceptions of Closeness From the Direct Eye Gaze

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