researching proverbs: familiarity
A series of research has been carried out with young people. The more they found out about each other, the less they liked each other. The author’s conclusion is that “familiarity does breed contempt”. This might even be plausible if the participants’ primary intention is pairing.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-familiarity-really-does-breed.php
In intentional communities (like e.g. the Epicurean friendship circles from 300 BCE till 500 CE, where the intention was ataraxia, i.e. stress-FREEDOM) knowledge of and respect for the other person is a precondition. For such communities the underlying principle is then “birds of a feather…”
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