Effects Of Romantic Relationships

A loving relationship is a strong feeling of affection and an attachment for another person, either companionate or romantic. Proximity, physical attractiveness, and similarity are factors that determine what attracts us to others, both in friendships and romantic relationships. Proximity is repeated exposure to someone increases your liking, which is also known as the mere exposure effect. Theorists Richard Moreland and Scott Beach demonstrated the mere exposure effect with an experiment in 1992. They had four equally attractive women silently attend a 200-student class for 0, 5, 10, or 15 classes. At the end of the course, students were shown slides of each woman, and asked to pick which one they found most attractive. The one they all found most attractive was the one they saw the most often; the one that attended the class for 15 sessions.[1]
Physical attractiveness is the way somebody’s looks appeal to you. Similarity is if someone’s physical appearance is similar to yours, you are likely to befriend them or talk to them. Theorist Jeremy Bailenson and his colleagues conducted an experiment in 2005 where they morphed features of voters’

Angeline Close Scheinbaum, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, has found that there 's a significant amount of anti-consumerism associated with the holiday. Scheinbaum says, “Most (63 percent) males and some (31 percent) females feel obligated to give a gift to their partner for this holiday. Some couples discuss their frustrations; yet they still buy…”[9] She quotes one of her participants saying, “Valentine 's Day is a way for retailers to get you to spend money in their stores. People get caught up in the B.S. and I should not have to spend extra to show I care, and my girlfriend agrees. But we both still spent