Just seeing something repeatedly makes you like it more, with no new information needed

In the 1960s, psychologist Robert Zajonc showed that people rated nonsense words, faces and Chinese characters more favourably simply because they had seen them before. The mere-exposure effect has since been replicated across hundreds of studies and is one of the most robust findings in social psychology.

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

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