Laws of Attraction (science, historical)


	Laws of Attraction (science, historical)

Meandylan

5-28-2008 10:42 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/825ad747-613e-4ba0-8ade-93f316859436/E40B570A-8349-4050-9426-365FCC78A8BC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laws_of_attraction&oldid=211181221" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laws_of_attraction&oldid=211181221" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laws_of_attraction&oldid=211181221"><SPAN class="mw-headline">Human laws of attraction</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laws_of_attraction&oldid=211181221"><P>In the mid 20th century, social scientists began to apply Plato's first law of affinity, i.e. "likes attract", to relationship life noting that, for example, people tend to marry based on such factors as age, religion, socioeconomic status, and education. In the 1950s, in opposition to this view, sociologist <A title="Robert F. Winch (page does not exist)" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_F._Winch&action=edit&redlink=1">Robert F. Winch</A> proposed the "opposites attract" theory, arguing that people are attracted to those whose needs conversely match his or her own.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laws_of_attraction&oldid=211181221"><CITE id="Reference-Hoffman-2003" class="book">Hoffman, Edward; Weiner, B., Marcella (2003). <I>The Love Compatibility Book</I>. New World Library. <A class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1577331226">ISBN 1-577331-226</A>-0.</CITE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E40B570A-8349-4050-9426-365FCC78A8BC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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