In a well-known study conducted in the 1950s, social psychologist Leon Festinger and colleagues analyzed the friendship patterns among graduate students living in one of the dormitories at MIT. Festinger et al.'s results were most consistent with the ____.

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Festinger et al.'s study found that the strongest predictor of friendship formation was propinquity or proximity, which is the physical nearness of individuals to each other.

In a Well-Known Study Conducted in the 1950s, Social Psychologist