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- From: abramwtz@coral.bucknell.edu (Jon Abramowitz)
- Newsgroups: sci.psychology
- Subject: physical attractiveness and the "matching hypothesis"
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 13:57:55 GMT
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- The matching hypothesis for physical attractiveness is a social psychological
- phenomenon that predicts that men and women involved in romantic relationships
- are more likely to be of similar levels of physical attractiveness than
- would be expected by chance. In other words, if I'm an 8 on a scale of 10,
- then I'm more likely to date other 8's.
-
- I'm looking for any thoughts, comments, etc. on this phenomenon. Do you seem
- to notice this effect?
-
- Post on the newsgroup, or send e-mail to: abramwtz@coral.bucknell.edu
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- Thanks,
- Jon Abramowitz (graduate student in psychology at Bucknell University)
-