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You like people more when you live near them.
The propinquity effect is the tendency for people to form friendships with those they encounter in their daily physical environment.
Repeated, unplanned contact creates a sense of comfort. It is not necessarily shared interests that bond you, but the simple frequency of being in the same hallway or office.
Your closest friends are often just the people who happen to occupy the same space.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Festinger et al., 1950, Social Pressures in Informal Groups
- What the check found
- The definition and attribution are standard in social psychology literature, despite the provided reference material not explicitly quoting the definition or the specific 1950 study citation.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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