Interpersonal attraction: Competence motivation and reinforcement theory.

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Scaled attitude topics for the potency of peer disagreement on the topics in affecting a person's sense of competence, and devised a measure to assess interpersonal attraction containing evaluative polar adjectives and behavioral intention items. Predictions from the D. Byrne and G. Clore (see pa, vol. 41:13535) competence-reinforcement model of attraction were tested in a total of 333 undergraduates. Ss were shown attitudes of others which varied on number of topics exposed, potency of the topics, and proportion of agreements. Ss recalled more disagreement than agreement topics (p < .001), illustrating the salience of disagreements in the situation. The number of topics was related to attraction (p < .05), supporting the reinforcement position in the attraction model; the potency effect (p < .02) supported motivational assumptions implicit in the model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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