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The role of contingency awareness in research concerned with attitude similarity and interpersonal attraction was investigated by using both a traditional attitude questionnaire and a correlated attitude questionnaire procedure for manipulating attitude similarity. The results showed that the correlated questionnaire procedure led to fewer subjects who were judged to be contingency aware. Both of the procedures led to replications of the often reported finding that interpersonal attraction is directly related to the proportion of attittude similarity between two people. This effect was obtained both for subjects who were judged to be contingency aware and for subjects who were not so judged.
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McGinley, H., Reiner, M. Contingency awareness and interpersonal attraction. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 13, 175–178 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335052
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