The Stress-Affiliation Paradigm Revisited: Do People Prefer the Kindness of Strangers or Their Attractiveness?

Two studies employed a classic affiliation-under-stress paradigm and examined people's preferences for affiliating with kind versus attractive same- and opposite-sex targets. When men were under default conditions of low stress, they preferred to affiliate with attractive women. However, men pl...

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Main Authors: LI, Norman P., Halterman, Rose A., Cason, Margaret J., Knight, George P., Maner, Jon K.
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/654
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1653/viewcontent/StressAffliationParadigmRvisited_2008.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English