Question

Upon arriving at college and meeting your roommate, you sigh mightily as you listen to his endless droning on about how wonderful his girlfriend back home is. "I miss her so much and can't wait to see her during Thanksgiving break," he comments. Knowing a bit about social psychology and the rules of interpersonal attraction, what are you most likely to think to yourself?

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) this relationship is doomed because the rule of proximity says that people are most attracted to those who are nearby, not far away.

What are you most likely to think to yourself is: this relationship is doomed because the rule of proximity says that people are most attracted to those who are nearby, not far away.

The roommate has nostalgia and misses her girlfriend so much, thinking of her night and day. But that is not healthy for a relationship. Distance is a huge factor that makes people forgive others. Furthermore, he and she are going to meet new people and feel attraction to others.

The other options of the question were B) I'm going to have to listen to this all year, C) I wish he realized that everything he's saying makes it sound like they are too similar and probably they are about to break up, and D) the relationship would never work out because research suggests that students going away to college change so much that they become unrecognizable to those who they formally had relationships.