... and on students so it's not typical of society. Another piece of evidence was done by Bossard (1932) he looked at marriage licences in Philadelphia and found that marriage partners had already lived close to one another. Proximity provides the minimum conditions for attraction to take place and friendships and romantic relationships are more common between people who live close to each other, however Bossard and Clarke's findings may not be so true in today's society because people are a lot more mobile and travel a lot more than in the 30's and 50's. There is also evidence to suggest that close physical proximity not only increase our chances of liking it also increases the likelihood of disliking a person. Evidence to support this was done by Ebbesen et al (1976); he studied residents of apartment blocks in California and found that their closest friends and most of their enemies ...

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