The Finding That Attraction Develops Rapidly, Before People Have Much

question 43

Multiple Choice

The finding that attraction develops rapidly, before people have much information about each other's attitudes, supports the hypothesis that:

• A) attraction increases with the proportion of similar attitudes
• B) attraction is the consequence of perceived similarity
• C) we assume that the people whom we like are more similar to us than they really are
• D) attitudes are really irrelevant to attraction
• E) attraction is irrelevant to judgments of similarity

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