My friends are all alike — the relation between liking and perceived similarity in person perception

2015/11/03 by Hans Alves, Alex Koch, Christian Unkelbach · 86 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attraction #Counterintuitive #Epistemology #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Impression formation #Interpersonal attraction #Perception #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Relation (database) #Similarity (geometry) #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social perception #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.011

published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 62, 103-117 (Elsevier BV)

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