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Don’t Love Those from Far Away: Factor of Proximity while Falling in Love

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Advice for good love: Don’t love those from far away. Take yourself one from nearby. The way a sensible house will take local stones for its building, stones which have suffered in the same cold and were scorched by the same sun.” —Yehuda Amichai, “Advice for Good Love,” Love Poems Everyone may recall that at some point in their life they may see a very attractive person who caught their full attention in the situation when there was no opportunity to approach them, like on the busy street, in the passing car, or even on the news. You were enlightened for a minute, you kept the memories of this person for couple of days, but eventually you forgot about your encounter. That is normal, and the reason is because you never saw that person again. If the stimuli wasn't reinforced you tend to forget about it even if you liked it a lot. Therefore, factor of the physical proximity is so important. It does ensure that continues exposure keeps happening until attraction intensifies. A number ...

Free Zamora Personality Test to Evaluate Individual and Social Attributes

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What is the Zamora Personality Test? Zamora Personality Test is a software program developed by Antonio Zamora. It uses ten categories of individual and ten categories of social personality attributes that will help you look inside yourself, find out how others see you, and get insights about other persons. The test was developed by creating an inventory of characteristics that people wanted in their ideal mate from an extensive compilation of personal advertisements in newspapers. The characteristics that people wanted were judged "desirable". A list of antonyms was then developed to create a list of "undesirable" traits. Analysis of the traits yielded the division into individual and social attributes and their ten subcategories. The Zamora Personality Test uses a scoring mechanism to determine the degree of intensity of personality traits by analyzing the answers to a set of statements that explore various aspects of internal feelings and past or hypothetical beh...