... act of causing something to come closer or the arousal of a thing's interest. In human terms this is merely the coming together of two people, and as such can be classified by the reasons for this teaming up. The first cause of attraction can be stated as the 'propinquity effect', or the simple case of proximity leading to interpersonal relationships. In a large number of studies, it was proven that a chance closeness of two people often led to friendships being formed. One example of this was an experiment carried out in 1967 by Priest and Sawyer1. They questioned a group of American students living in College dormitories, and showed that roommates were twice as likely to be friends as they were with all other floormates. In turn floormates were more than twice as likely to be friends with each other than they were with all other dormitory residents. ...

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