The Science of Making (and Keeping) Friends
A Slight Change of Plans
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The Importance of Repeated Interactions in Facilitating Friendship
The mere exposure effect describes our tendency to like things that are familiar. If you continue to be exposed to someone, they don't harm you, then you feel trust with them. When we have repeated interaction, mere exposure increases, we like them more. They like us more. And if we do want to initiate an interaction and say something like, hey, I've really enjoyed talking to you. We'd love to connect further,. You open to exchanging contact information. We're just more likely to be successful versus when we've seen someone once, maybe at like a lecture at a bar and then we ask them to hang out.
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