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skymedlock · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

When Festinger and his colleagues studied friendship patterns among married couples in an apartment complex at MIT, they found that people who lived at the foot of the stairs or near

mailboxes had more friends on upper floors than did other people who lived on the first floor. This illustrates the power of ________ to influence friendship patterns.
a. physical distance
b. functional distance
c. similarity
d. movement patterns

Question 2

The term functional distance refers to

a. the role that physical distance plays in the initiation of relationships.
b. distance and exposure to others that follows from certain aspects of architectural design.
c. the preferred distance between people that varies as a function of the quality of their relationship.
d. the level of comfort that people experience, depending on their distance from others.