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Meeting Your Match: How Attractiveness Similarity Affects Approach Behavior in Mixed-Sex Dyads

Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2009-06, Vol.35 (6), p.685-697 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. Jun 2009 ;ISSN: 0146-1672 ;EISSN: 1552-7433 ;DOI: 10.1177/0146167209332965 ;PMID: 19336540

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Title:
Meeting Your Match: How Attractiveness Similarity Affects Approach Behavior in Mixed-Sex Dyads
Author: van Straaten, Ischa ; Engels, Rutger C. M. E. ; Finkenauer, Catrin ; Holland, Rob W.
Subjects: Adolescent ; Adult ; Assortative mating ; Attractiveness ; Beauty ; Behavior ; Body Image ; Choice Behavior ; Context effects (Psychology) ; Esthetics ; Female ; Gender differences ; Goals ; Humans ; Interpersonal attraction ; Interpersonal Relations ; Investment ; Male ; Mixed sex ; Models, Psychological ; Motivation ; Personal appearance ; Personality ; Psychological aspects ; Self Concept ; Self image ; Selfpresentation ; Sex Characteristics ; Sex Factors ; Social aspects ; Social Desirability ; Social Perception ; Students - psychology ; Studies ; Women
Is Part Of: Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2009-06, Vol.35 (6), p.685-697
Description: This experimental study investigated approach behavior toward opposite-sex others of similar versus dissimilar physical attractiveness. Furthermore, it tested the moderating effects of sex. Single participants interacted with confederates of high and low attractiveness. Observers rated their behavior in terms of relational investment (i.e., behavioral efforts related to the improvement of interaction fluency, communication of positive interpersonal affect, and positive self-presentation). As expected, men displayed more relational investment behavior if their own physical attractiveness was similar to that of the confederate. For women, no effects of attractiveness similarity on relational investment behavior were found. Results are discussed in the light of positive assortative mating, preferences for physically attractive mates, and sex differences in attraction-related interpersonal behaviors.
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0146-1672
EISSN: 1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209332965
PMID: 19336540
Source: MEDLINE
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Meeting Your Match: How Attractiveness Similarity Affects Approach Behavior in Mixed-Sex Dyads

Copyright SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. Jun 2009 ;ISSN: 0146-1672 ;EISSN: 1552-7433 ;DOI: 10.1177/0146167209332965 ;PMID: 19336540

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