The richness of Mr. Sachs's accomplishment lies in the sense of familiarity he creates, the implicit bond that develops between the couple on the screen and the people in the audience.
The band, integral to the success of the evening was, introduced to the audience by Gray, creating a seamless sense of familiarity that allowed for an evening of music including songs "Relating To A Psychopath," "Beauty In The World," "Ghetto Love," "Creep," "Sweet Baby" and my personal favorite, her smoldering cover of the iconic Annie Lennox's "Here Comes The Rain Again" that left me spellbound.
Yet it is not the comfortable familiarity that breeds contempt.
It accomplished more, but also created the loud but casual familiarity that happens when a group has totally shaped its sound to a room, as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has to the Rose Theater.
Daily exposure to personal data sharing on social media normalizes the process of swapping information and creates a culture of familiarity that results in Millennials placing greater faith in user-generated content than any other form of online media.
Indeed, although research has shown that familiarity can create the trust thought to be crucial for activities such as brainstorming, it may be that this benefit is trumped by the fresh perspectives that come from adding new voices to creative tasks.
Fifteen years after creating the role, familiarity has bred something very close to perfection.
Strategist Mark Graul argued that the former governor "had a profound impact" on party members in Wisconsin, which had created a familiarity complex that caused people to say "'Oh, come on'" after hearing of his run.
Prototype stores are all designed the same way on the inside, to create familiarity and to ensure that the stores are designed the way corporate wants them to be.
The power of that experience creates conditions that produce familiarity bias.
