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	Interpersonal attraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Interpersonal attraction is the attraction between people which leads to friendships and romantic relationships.
		The study of interpersonal attraction is a major area of study in social psychology.
		The evolutionary explanation of interpersonal attraction is that it more likely occurs when someone has physical features which indicate that they are very fertile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interpersonal_attraction (271 words)

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		Because of the results of previous research concerning interpersonal attraction, it is known that a number of variables affect the level of interpersonal attraction one person has for another.
		Since there were four dependent interpersonal attraction variables in this study, a decision had to be made whether to treat these variables as independent from each other (an employ a series of univariate analyses of variance) or consider the four to be part of an interrelated system (and employ a multivariate analysis of variance).
		However, the fact that the interaction of subject apprehension and attitude similarity influenced task and communication attraction in the second study while the interaction of subject apprehension and target apprehension impacted social and sexual attraction in the first study is not explained by this speculation.
	www.jamescmccroskey.com /publications/61.htm (6945 words)

	Attraction, interpersonal Encyclopedia of Psychology - Find Articles
		The connection between interpersonal attraction and similar attitudes is complex because once two people become friends, they begin to influence each other's attitudes.
		Another important factor in interpersonal attraction, especially during the initial encounter, is that of physical appearance, even among members of the same sex.
		To a certain extent, romantic attraction is influenced by evolutionary considerations: the survival of the species.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0000/ai_2699000028 (798 words)

	Interpersonal Complementarity
		Elaborated in 1969 by Robert Carson, the interpersonal principle of complementarity specifies ways in which a person's interpersonal behavior evokes restricted classes of behavior from an interactional partner, leading to a self-sustaining and reinforcing system.
		Gonick, J. The effects of interpersonal complementarity and clinician characteristics on clinical judgments of diagnostic severity and prognosis (Doctoral dissertation, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1987).
		Shiff, R. The effect of interpersonal complementarity on anxiety level and performance of dyads on a decision-making task and a jigsaw puzzle (Doctoral dissertation, Emory University, 1990).
	www.personalityresearch.org /interpersonal/complementarity.html (2014 words)

	WowEssays.com - Interpersonal Attraction
		Studies of interpersonal attraction have concluded that people are attracted mostly to those that they find physically attractive and who are geographically close.
		Another reason that one’s attraction leads to mutual attraction is that you tend to be nicer to the people that you like, which in return makes you more attractive to them.
		However, interpersonal attraction is not the only factor that effects the building of a strong and health relationship.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ae5/kfw155.shtml (707 words)

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		Further, attractions are likely to occur among people who are seen as appropriate for the particular kind of relationship, so that attractions are most common among age-peers and among people of the same social class and people who are approved of by one’s friends (Aron et al., 1989).
		Finally, romantic attractions are more likely under conditions in which one is physiologically aroused (the arousal is misattributed to the person) or under unusual or challenging circumstances (which become associated with the person) (Aron et al., 1989).
		Attraction requires at least some exposure to the object of attraction and attractions usually occur among people who live in the same environment, and thus who also share similar backgrounds and experiences (Berscheid & Reis, 1998).
	bluehawk.monmouth.edu /~glewando/KeyFiles/Exp_Transitions.doc (983 words)

	Essay: Discuss the mysterious topic of Interpersonal Attraction, and address both friendship and love. - Coursework.Info
		Interpersonal Attraction is the degree of positive or negative feelings towards another.
		Attractions account for a variety of social experiences such as admiration, liking, friendship, intimacy, lust and love (chapter 10,575).
		My experiences that I have learned from Interpersonal Attraction are that is not always good to just fall for the good-looking person.
	www.coursework.info /GCSE/Psychology/Discuss_the_mysterious_topic_of_Interpersonal_Attraction_and_address_L39984.html (297 words)

	Attraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In general, attraction is a force that moves one object to another.
		If interpersonal attraction is mutual it may lead to friendship or a romantic relationship.
		In grammar, attraction is the process by which a relative pronoun takes on — that is, is "attracted to" — the case of its antecedent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attraction (162 words)

	Interpersonal Attraction - The Forces that Draw People Together Copyright — Elizabeth Ryan
		Our attraction to someone tends to lead to mutual attraction because we’re likely to be very pleasant to people whom we fancy, which in turn makes us more attractive to them.We also find similarity appealing.
		When we move beyond attraction to developing a relationship, the partner we choose is likely to have a comparable level of physical attractiveness to our own.
		Attraction is not confined to the beginning of relationships.
	www.simplysolo.com /relationships/interpersonal_attraction_elizabeth_ryan.html (1141 words)

	Talk Radio Article
		Assuming that the attraction process is similar across contexts of interaction (Berscheid, 1985), researchers have identified two antecedents of interpersonal attraction: experiencing rewarding reinforcement and attitude similarity (e.g., Berscheid and Walster, 1978; Burleson and Denton, 1992; Byrne, 1971, 1992; Duck, 1994; Lott and Lott, 1974; Monsour, 1994).
		Responsiveness is important to attraction (Davis and Perkowitz, 1979), and receptivity is a positive reinforcer of relationships (Wheeless, Frymier, and Thompson, 1992).
		Similar to indirect interpersonal influence that happens everyday in face-to-face interaction (Duck and Pond, 1989; Duck, Rutt, Hurst, and Strejc, 1991), talk on the radio contributes to a world view that is continuously supported, challenged, and reinterpreted by hosts, callers, and listeners.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/cosi/faculty/step/TalkRadioArticle.htm (6526 words)

	Theory of Attraction
		Attraction Theory is defined as the theory concerned with the process involved in attributing causation or motivation to a person's behavior.
		Many studies have stated that men are more overwhelmed by the physical attractiveness of women, while women are know to comment more on the males personality.
		Steve Suck reports, "All the same, attraction to strangers is the starting point for all relationships that do eventually start" (71).
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/Speech/rccs/theory08.htm (665 words)

	CMC Magazine: Developing Personal and Emotional Relationships Via Computer-Mediated Communication
		Almost all theorists agree that interpersonal attraction is a "positive or negative attitude toward another person" (Berscheid and Hatfield, 1978, 2).
		Measures of attraction discussed include some that do not come into play in CMC, nor can they be measured, including: eye-contact (how long individuals engage in mutual eye-contact appears to be a determinant of interpersonal attraction) "inclination" to one another (leaning towards and other body language); and the distance one stands from another.
		Social attraction is "attraction to those aspects of the self that are conferred by membership of or affiliation with certain social groups or categorizations," while personal attraction is "attraction to the idiosyncratic aspects of an individual" (226).
	www.december.com /cmc/mag/1998/may/chenault.html (7096 words)

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		Research Questions and Hypotheses Since interpersonal attraction is important in the study of relationships, and since spitting has been neglected, this paper proposes an experimental study of spitting of college-age students.
		However, since this study seeks to explore a "new" topic area in the study of interpersonal attraction, and given that this sample is available to the researcher, the choice to use a non-random sample can be justified.
		The dependent variable, interpersonal attraction, will be measure using the HOT scale (Jones, 1995) that has established measurement validity (Jones, 1994).
	www.odu.edu /~tsocha/comm302/302-f05-proposal-sample.doc (1978 words)

	Interpersonal Attraction
		As Huston observes, well over 80% of the research findings about attraction between people have been derived from persons who had never met each other prior to the study, and, presumably, never saw each other again.
		There are also two common opposing views of interpersonal attraction that each serve to oppose research in the area.
		It would be nice if the study of interpersonal attraction could offer us some insights into these problems.
	www.nd.edu /~rwilliam/xsoc530/attraction.html (2649 words)

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		This refers to having a knowledge of the theories and command of the basic interpersonal skills that enable us to act in an interpersonally competent way.
		It will do this by considering, first, interpersonal attraction; second, stages of relationship development theory; third, the Chinese cultural notion of Yuan Fen in interpersonal relations; and fourth, Rawlins' ideas about the nature of communication in young adult friendships.
		Like the interpersonal competence model, some of these findings are open to question.
	www.canberra.edu.au /uc/lectures/commedu/sem971/unit4014/Interpersonal_Com._W2_Lec.txt (1361 words)

	Facial Attractiveness Websites and Recommended Readings
		Weekly rankings of attraction were made by each of 17 members of a residential group to each other over a 4-yr period.
		Attitudinally similar dyads moved in the direction of greater attraction across time, whereas attitudinally dissimilar dyads deteriorated in their level of mutual attraction.
		Newcomb, Theodore M. Reciprocity of interpersonal attraction: A nonconfirmation of a plausible hypothesis.
	otel.uis.edu /yoder/facerecread.htm (436 words)

	Beebe & Masterson's Communicating in Small Groups: Chapter Three
		Identify and explain four factors that are elements of interpersonal attraction.
		One of the strongest influences in interpersonal attraction
		Attraction to others who exhibit qualities that they do not have but that they admire.
	www.uky.edu /~drlane/groups/ch03.htm (440 words)

	P324 Spring 1998 --Physical Attraction References
		Byrne, D., Clore, G., and Worchel, P. The effect of economic similarity-dissimilarity on interpersonal attraction.
		Clark, M. S., and Mills, J. Interpersonal attraction in exchange and communal relationships.
		Efran, M. The effect of physical appearance on the judgement of guilt, interpersonal attraction, and severity of recommended punishment in a simulated jury task.
	www.units.muohio.edu /psybersite/attraction/references.shtml (817 words)

	NLP Comprehensive, NLPCO, NLP Colorado, NLP Info Central, Neuro Linguistic Programming
		This research was a necessary first step toward clinical application since, if language usage were found to enhance interpersonal attraction, training in PRS matching might provide a useful tool for psychotherapists.
		Attraction was measured via the second scale, Counselor Rating Form (Barak and LaCrosse, 1975).
		A null hypothesis was investigated, first through measuring the relationship between attraction and the respondent's primary, secondary, and least-used representational systems; then by measuring visual, auditory and kinesthetic PRS-oriented respondents' attraction toward target individuals presenting in the three PRSs.
	www.nlpcomprehensive.com /research/Rep_Systems/attractiveness_rep_sys.html (265 words)

	George Levinger's Homepage
		Levinger, G., & Breedlove, J. Interpersonal attraction and agreement.
		Levinger, G. A three-level approach to attraction: Toward an understanding of pair relatedness.
		Reconsidering attractions and barriers as determinants of commitment in a relationship.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~levinger (531 words)

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		The Law of Attraction teaches us that whatever you focus on, you will attract MORE of into your l.
		In the dynamics of the self-concept and in the tendency to self-actualization are found the prima.
		Before I explain why a minute of Deliberate Attraction is better than none, I'd like to begin by.
	www.gift-solutions.info /articles/index-9.html (462 words)

	Relational Development Variables: Interpersonal Attraction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The WOW essay from Lycos provides a quick overview of variables of interpersonal attraction.
		Communication scholars, James C. McCroskey and Thomas McCain published this piece and the items for their questionnare for assessing interpersonal attraction.
		Consider the issue of attraction from the perspective of students of social psychology using this page from the University of Notre Dame.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/spd110td/interper/stages/stagesvarattract.htm (80 words)

	Student Psychology - Interpersonal Attraction
		Hi there, I'm about to embark on an essay titled "how have psychologists theorised interpersonal attraction" and as it's my second ever essay, i'm a little stumped as to where to start on this one.
		Should i include factors that influence attraction, ie proximity, familiarity etc along with the actual theories of social exchange, equity and reinforcement?
		Hi, I think you have all the right factors to include in an essay on interpersonal attraction.
	www.psypress.co.uk /student/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=102 (116 words)

	Social Psychology Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A paper by Chris Hendricks, Dawn Olson, Seth Hall and Jonathan Batt which explores the psychological implications of cross-cultural variations and similarities in physical attraction.
		Lecture notes which discuss the major antecedents to liking and interpersonal attraction.
		Detailed lecture notes on how proximity, positive and negative affect, need for affiliation, reciprocity, and physical attractiveness influence interpersonal attraction.
	www.usu.edu /psy3510/links/links5.html (57 words)

	Similarity (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Research has consistently shown that similarity leads to interpersonal attraction.
		Similarities in opinions, interpersonal styles, amount of communication skill, demographics, and values have all been shown in experiments to increase liking.
		Several explanations have been offered to explain similarity increases interpersonal attraction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Similarity_(psychology) (189 words)

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	Height as a basis for interpersonal attraction Adolescence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In sum, this study sought to examine the complementary vs. the step function in the selection of the ideal and real dating partner.
		Second, the presumed social advantages for tall males and short females in interpersonal interaction situations were examined.
		Subjects in this study (N = 594) were volunteers from communication classes taught at a large mid-Atlantic university.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2248/is_n114_v29/ai_15622157 (870 words)

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