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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2020.11.10.257

Effects of Attitude Similarity and Group Membership on Interpersonal Attraction  

Seok, Dong-Heon (Dept. of Psychology, Daegu University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.11, no.10, 2020 , pp. 257-266 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this experimental study was to examine the effects of attitude similarity and ingroup/outgroup membership on interpersonal attraction. 2(Attitude similarity: Similar/Dissimilar) × 2(Group membership: Ingroup/Outgroup) between-subject design was used. The results revealed the significant main effect of attitude similarity. That is, participants preferred a person who had similar attitude with him/herself compared to the person who had dissimilar attitude. Furthermore, the significant 2-way interaction effect revealed that attitude similarity produced greater attraction for ingroup than for outgroup members and attitude dissimilarity produced stronger repulsion effects for ingroup than for outgroup members. These results could contribute to workplaces and organizations by suggesting that considering attitude similarity between team members could be a way to improve organizational productivity. The necessity for expanding these results to research on work-team performance and improvement of organizational productivity was discussed.
Keywords
Attitude Similarity; Group Membership; Ingroup; Outgroup; Interpersonal Attraction; Experiment;
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