Preacquaintance Attitude Similarity and Attraction Revisited: Ten Days in a Fall-Out Shelter

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Thirteen previously unacquainted males lived together for ten days under simulated fall-out shelter conditions. Subjects' attitudes regarding 44 issues were assessed one day prior to the beginning of confinement and positive and negative sociometric choices were assessed at the end of the first, fifth, and ninth days of confinement. Attraction to other group members, as assessed by sociometric choices, was significantly and positively related to two indices of attitude similarity on each of the three assessment days. Relevant to critics' comments regarding laboratory based findings, attraction and preacquaintance attitude similarity were shown to be significantly related when (a) similarity and dissimilarity are not explicity communicated to Ss by the experimental procedures and (b) previously unacquainted Ss interact freely over an extended period of time.

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