Howard weiss and james shaw found that people were happier doing a boring task when they were surrounded by people who said that the task was interesting than they were when the people around them talked about how boring the task was?

That statement is True. It's called emotional contagion.

Explanation:

Emotional contagion refers to a situation when the emotion felt by certain individuals affect the emotion of other individuals around them. This happened due to human ability to detect non-verbal communication (such as expression and body language). We picked up the non-verbal communication from other people and synchronize our behaviors with theirs.

in this scenario it would be the consumer demand as most influential in making the decision. the band members need to figure out where and from whom they will make the most money, in other words who out of the two consumer groups - football fans or car drivers - will spend their money, who is more likely to contribute to their cause and buy what they are offering.

intimacy, passion and commitment are the components of a interpersonal relationship emphasized in the triangular theory of love by robert sternberg.

the triangular theory of love says love can be comprehend as this componest form the vertices of a triangle.  

intimacy relates to feelings such as of closeness and connection;

passion relates the drives that brings people together, as physical attraction.

commitment relates to the being in a long-term relationship.