Psychology

You like things more simply because you've seen them before

Robert Zajonc showed that repeated exposure to a stimulus — a face, a shape, a nonsense word — reliably increases how much people like it, even when they don't consciously recognise having seen it before. It's why jingles get stuck, why familiar candidates poll better, and why an office you've walked past for years starts to feel like it belongs to you.

Robert Zajonc, Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure — Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1968

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