logging for approval, acceptance and love, American spend 86…
Page 137 logging for approval, acceptance and love, American spend 86 billion annually on cosmetics, fragrances and personal care, products, and billions more on clothes, hairstyling, and diets. Is that money well spent? And what else, or more greatly, determines the impressions we make and the relationships we hope to form and sustain? Decades of research offer some simple predicated number one proximity are social ecology matters number two similarity hundreds of experiments and reconfirmed that likeness leads to liking number three equity when key to relationship endurance is equity, which occurs when friends or lovers, perceived that they receive in proportion to what they give Number for self disclosure relationships also grow closer and stronger as we share our likes and dislikes, our joys and hurts, our dreams and worries.
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)