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Familiarity increases liking

Exposure effect is a psychological artifact well known to advertisers: people express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them.


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This effect has been nicknamed the "familiarity breeds liking" effect.

In interpersonal attractiveness research studies, the term exposure principle is used to characterize the phenomenon in which the more often a person is seen by someone the more attractive and intelligent that person appears to be..

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