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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:28:47 -0600
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- From: mssg3304@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU
- Subject: Re: the matching hypothesis
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- >I would be interested in knowing what people think of the "matching
- >hypothesis". A little background...
- >
- >The principle states that romantic couples (and same sex friends) are more
- >likely to be of similar levels of physical attractiveness than would be
- >expected by chance. For example, this does not mean that you and your
- >significant other might look the same, but that if you were, say, an "8"
- >on a scale of 1-10, your partner is more likely to also be an "8".
-
- This intuitively makes sense to me because I would expect that individuals
- either don't ask out, or are intimidated by, people who are more attractive
- than they are (ceteris paribus). On the other hand, people probably don't
- want to go out with people they perceive as being "uglier" than themselves.
- Whaddya think?
-
- Michael Saxon
- University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana
-