When Festinger and His Colleagues Studied Friendship Patterns Among Married

Multiple Choice

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