| Abstract: | This study assesses which verbal and nonverbal behaviors are indicative of one of the following three levels of liking: (a) liking and wanting to date someone, (b) friendship, and (c) indifference, as towards an acquaintance. Participants were 81 male and 99 female introductory psychology students. Subjects were given a checklist for one week on which they were to record their behaviors regarding one member of the opposite sex in each of the preceeding categories. This checklist was composed of those behaviors most frequently mentioned in a pilot study of male and female undergraduates. The members of this first study had responded to open-ended questions asking which verbal and nonverbal behaviors they had engaged in regarding people they had known in each of the three liking categories. A series of one-between, one-within, 2x3 analyses of variance were performed on each of the 56 behaviors appearing on the checklist. With the exception of 2 behaviors, all the behaviors on the checklist were found to be potential cues. |
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