In a well-known study conducted in the 1950s, social psychologist Leon Festinger and colleagues analyzed the friendship patterns
among graduate students living in one of the dormitories at MIT. The researchers found that strongest predictor of friendship was ____. a. how extraverted the students were
b. similarity in terms of hobbies and activities
c. similarity in terms of basic demographics (age, gender, being single versus married, etc.)
d. how close the students lived to one another
The answer is d. how close the students lived to one another.
Explanation:
Friendships were moke likely to start the closer people were physically, Festinger and his team found out. . A similar pattern was observed regarding attitudes; attitudes of dormitory residents showed a tendency to converge.
