Pairs of pianists performed short musical items while action familiarity and interpersonal (behavioral) synchronization accuracy were manipulated in a factorial design.
Sharma et al. [48] mentioned that with the passing of time, consumers hope to develop and fortify interpersonal relationships to achieve familiarity, friendship, and personal confidence [48].
More specifically, it remains to be determined how interpersonal factors, such as personal preferences, familiarity, and expectations contribute to emotional responses to musical stimuli (also see [5]).
That is, a prior experience, whether talked about as positive or negative (in terms of the effectiveness or success of the treatment, satisfaction, or the interpersonal encounter), enabled the participant to retain some level of familiarity with and understanding of the style of treatment offered.
That's the view of two UCLA scientists, David Lick and Kerri Johnson, who have been investigating the ways that familiarity and fluency, as cognitive cues, might skew our interpersonal judgments.
Our data indicate that the nature and context of public interactions with GPs fostered familiarity with a specific GP or practice, which allowed interpersonal trust to develop.
This resulted in lower levels of familiarity with pharmacists that did not allow a rapport to develop undermining interpersonal trust.
If we consider our data in the light of Luhmann's theories on familiarity, confidence, trust and risk, it is clear that system/institution factors heavily reinforce high levels of interpersonal trust in GPs relative to pharmacists.
However, since the capacity for patients to navigate this complex online questionnaire may depend on a number of factors, including familiarity with computers, and universal access to the internet is not certain, a phone operator with interpersonal skills verbally guided the patients through the questionnaire.
