Journal of Personality and Social Psychology The Ugliness-in-Averageness Effect: Tempering the Warm Glow of Familiarity
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The ugliness-in-averageness effect: Tempering the warm glow of familiarity.
Mere exposure (i.e., stimulus repetition) and blending (i.e., stimulus averaging) are classic ways to increase social preferences, including facial attractiveness. In both effects, increases in preference involve enhanced familiarity. Prominent memory theories assume that familiarity depends on a match between the target and similar items in memory. These theories predict that when individual i...
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