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

• Main Authors: LI, Norman P., Halterman, Rose A., Cason, Margaret J., Knight, George P., Maner, Jon K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Affiliation; Mating; Sex differences; Stress; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...