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Zorn, Tabea J., Mata, Andre and Alves, Hans (2022). Attitude similarity and interpersonal liking: A dominance of positive over negative attitudes. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol., 100. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1096-0465

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Abstract

Sharing attitudes leads to liking. While this similarity effect is well-established, past research rarely addressed whether positive and negative attitudes differ in their potential to elicit liking. Hence, it is unclear whether people prefer others who share their likes or others who share their dislikes. Four studies (N = 402) showed that likes have a stronger potential to elicit liking than dislikes. That is, participants found others who shared their likes more likable than others who shared their dislikes (Study 1). Also, participants found others who did not share their likes least likable, while not sharing dislikes was not as detrimental to liking (Study 2). We argue that three aspects contribute to this finding. First, people generally prefer likers to dislikers (Study 3). Second and third, likes are stronger and more self-revealing than dislikes (Studies 2 & 4). We discuss the present work's novel insights into the similarity effect and their implications for dating and friendship initiation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Zorn, Tabea J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mata, Andre UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Alves, Hans UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-674637
DOI:	10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104281
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Exp. Soc. Psychol.
Volume:	100
Date:	2022
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN DIEGO
ISSN:	1096-0465
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ATTRACTION-SIMILARITY; PEOPLE; INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION; DETERMINANTS; SATISFACTION; PREFERENCES; RECIPROCITY; DISCLOSURE; ADJUSTMENT Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67463