In Newcomb's Study of the Development of Friendships in a Rooming

question 33

Multiple Choice

In Newcomb's study of the development of friendships in a rooming house, which statement most accurately represents the results?

• A) those who were most similar later became attracted to each other
• B) the discovery of similarities preceded attraction
• C) attraction developed among those matched in physical attraction
• D) attraction developed rapidly before people knew whose attitudes were similar to their own and whose were not
• E) repulsion from dissimilar people preceded attraction

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