THE REPULSION HYPOTHESIS - ON THE NONDEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS
THE REPULSION HYPOTHESIS - ON THE NONDEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.51.6.1156
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发表时间:
1986-12-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
ROSENBAUM, ME
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作者:
ROSENBAUM, ME
A universal contention in the psychological literature is that attitudinal similarity leads to attraction. I argue that attitudinal similarity does not lead to liking but that dissimilarity does indeed lead to repulsion. Primary attention is given to Byrne's experimental paradigm in which subjects are shown the attitude scale of a stranger that is similar or dissimilar to their own and who are then asked to indicate their attraction to the stranger. Consistently, Byrne and others have found a linear relation between similarity and attraction. Unfortunately, the Byrne paradigm has never included a control condition in which ratings are made in the absence of attitudinal information. Research that used the Byrne paradigm and other procedures that included an appropriate control group is reported, and support is found for a repulsion hypothesis. Byrne's reinforcement model of attraction is also shown not to be supported. Consideration is given to special conditions in which attitudinal similarity does lead to attraction, to the origins of the hypothesis that similarity leads to attraction, and to the theoretical basis for the repulsion effect.