Social Interaction and Influence Interpersonal Attraction Reward attraction explanation The notion that we are attracted to other people because they provide us with rewards Mere exposure effect The finding that simply seeing another person frequently will increase attraction to that person Shared beauty effect The fact that an individual will be rated as more attractive if he or she is with other attractive people Goodness stereotype The tendency to perceive attractive people as more intelligent poised exciting independent and better adjusted birds of a feather flock together Helping Social exchange explanation The notion that we help others because we think that the reward for helping will be greater than the cost of the helping to us Negative relief state explanation The notion that we help others to reduce our own negative emotional state that resulted from seeing the other persons in pain or anguish Altruism The characteristic that leads people to help others without regard to self benefit and strictly out of goodness Bystander effect The fact that people are less likely to help another person if other individuals are present who could help Diffusion of responsibility An explanation for the bystander effect which suggests that we are less likely to help when others are present because we share responsibility with others and therefore feel less responsible
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