Asymmetrical attention allocation to dissimilar and similar attitudes

Jia, Lile; Singh, Ramadhar

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.07.012

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“…According to the repulsion hypothesis (Rosenbaum, ), for example, similar attitudes are redundant for attraction but dissimilar ones lead to repulsion. When participants engage themselves in detailed processing, they allocate equal attention to dissimilar and similar attitudes (Jia & Singh, ) as shown by a positive linear relation between the proportion of similar attitudes and attraction (Byrne & Nelson, ). Kaplan and Anderson () argued that the linear trend in attitude similarity effects on attraction can hold only when dissimilar and similar attitudes have equal and opposite effects (Singh & Ho, ).…”

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Attitude similarity and attraction: Validation, positive affect, and trust as sequential mediators

Singh

Wegener

Sankaran

et al. 2017

Personal Relationships

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Effectance motivation-an urge for certainty and a feeling of being able to know, predict, and control one's environment-was initially proposed as the mechanism underlying attitude similarity effects on attraction. However, this motivation was discarded as an explanation when positive affect was identified. The presence of alternative mechanisms did not deny a role for the validation of attitudes in attraction. Therefore, we investigated the validation of one's views by those of peers as an additional mediator and its relation with two previously known mediators of positive affect and trust. As hypothesized, validation mediated attitude similarity effects when measured alone (Experiment 1) and within sequential mediation patterns involving positive affect (Experiment 2A) and trust (Experiments 2B and 2C).

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Attitude similarity and attraction: Validation, positive affect, and trust as sequential mediators

Singh

Wegener

Sankaran

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“…Therefore, issues were chosen such that attitude similarity or dissimilarity would not be confounded with the extent to which responses of the partner are normative versus counter-normative. In prior research, effects of attitude similarity have not been confined to particular subsets of these attitude topics (see Jia & Singh, 2009;Singh & Ho, 2000). The issues used in this experiment were premarital sexual relations, strict TRUST, ATTITUDE-SIMILARITY, AND ATTRACTION 9 discipline, ranking of schools, divorce, death penalty, belief in God, environmental protection, abortion, interracial dating, career for women, money, and smoking. Experimental booklet.…”

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On the Importance of Trust in Interpersonal Attraction from Attitude Similarity

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“…The similarity-dissimilarity asymmetry in attention is more likely when people have depleted rather than ample cognitive resources (Jia & Singh, 2009;Tan & Singh, 1995). Further, the interaction between similarity and liking is more likely when attraction alone is measured (Insko et al, 1973, Experiment 1) than when attraction is measured after respect, that is, fillers items of Byrne's (1961) Interpersonal Judgement Scale (Byrne & Ervin, 1969;Byrne & Griffitt, 1966;Clore & Baldridge, 1970) or positive affect (Singh, 1975).…”

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Similarity and Liking Effects on Interpersonal Attraction: Test of the Two-Dimensional Trust-Respect Model

Singh

Goh

Sankaran

et al. 2016

PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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In the two-dimensional cognitive model of interpersonal attraction, (a) trust in willingness to facilitate goals/needs of each other and (b) respect for capacity to execute that willingness have been postulated to be necessary for relationship development. However, the extant literature shows supremacy of trust over respect in drawing two strangers together. Thus, the present authors hypothesized that trust and respect might drive attraction equally when the partner's liking for the participant is known along with attitude similarity between them. When attitude similarity and partner's liking were manipulated and both respect and trust were measured before attraction in an experiment conducted in Singapore (N = 176), there were similar additive effects on the three responses of trust, respect, and attraction. Importantly, and as hypothesized, trust and respect equally mediated the similarity and liking effects when trust was conceptualized as preceding respect in determining attraction.eey wrdd: K similarity-attraction, inferred liking, information integration, likingattraction

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Asymmetrical attention allocation to dissimilar and similar attitudes

Cited by 11 publications

References 50 publications

Attitude similarity and attraction: Validation, positive affect, and trust as sequential mediators

Attitude similarity and attraction: Validation, positive affect, and trust as sequential mediators

On the Importance of Trust in Interpersonal Attraction from Attitude Similarity

Similarity and Liking Effects on Interpersonal Attraction: Test of the Two-Dimensional Trust-Respect Model

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