REPLY In Live Interaction , Does Familiarity Promote Attraction or Contempt ? Reply

REPLY In Live Interaction , Does Familiarity Promote Attraction or Contempt ?

In this reply, we address and refute each of Norton, Frost, and Ariely’s (2011) specific objections to the conclusion that, ceteris paribus, familiarity breeds liking in live interaction. In particular, we reiterate the importance of studying live interaction rather than decontextualized processes. These rebuttals notwithstanding, we concur with Norton et al.’s call for an integrative model tha...

Familiarity does indeed promote attraction in live interaction.

Does familiarity promote attraction? Prior research has generally suggested that it does, but a recent set of studies by Norton, Frost, and Ariely (2007) challenged that assumption. Instead, they found that more information about another person, when that information was randomly selected from lists of trait adjectives, using a trait evaluation paradigm, promoted perceptions of dissimilarity an...

Does Familiarity Breed Contempt or Liking ?

Reis, Maniaci, Caprariello, Eastwick, and Finkel (2011) conducted 2 studies that demonstrate that in certain cases, familiarity can lead to liking—in seeming contrast to the results of our earlier article (Norton, Frost, & Ariely, 2007). We believe that Reis et al. (a) utilized paradigms far removed from spontaneous, everyday social interactions that were particularly likely to demonstrate a po...

A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It

Familiarity and Interpersonal Attraction 1 Running Head: FAMILIARTY AND INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION When Does Familiarity Promote Versus Undermine Interpersonal Attraction? An Integrative Model from Erstwhile Adversaries

This article began as an adversarial collaboration between two groups of researchers with competing views on a longstanding question: Does familiarity promote or undermine interpersonal attraction? As we explored our respective positions, it became clear that the limitations of our conceptualizations of the familiarity–attraction link, as well as the limitations of prior research, was masking a...