Imagine That You Have Just Arrived at University and Are

question 65

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you have just arrived at university and are living in a dorm. You meet someone who is physically attractive and you'd like to get to know this person better. After a long dinner conversation, you learn that this person shares many of your attitudes and beliefs, but is only visiting and happens to live on the other side of the province. Based on the factors that have been shown to predict interpersonal attraction, your similarity to this person would be likely to increase your feelings of attraction, and the fact that they live far way would be likely to your feelings of attraction.

• A) decrease
• B) eliminate
• C) increase
• D) not contribute to

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Definitions:

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