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What Leads to Romantic Attraction: Similarity, Reciprocity, Security, or Beauty? Evidence From a Speed‐Dating Study
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ABSTRACT Years of attraction research have established several “principles” of attraction with robust evidence. However, a major limitation of previous attraction studies is that they have almost exclusively relied on well‐controlled experiments, which are often criticized for lacking ecological validity. The current research was designed to examine initial attraction in a real‐life setting—speed‐dating. Social Relations Model analyses demonstrated that initial attraction was a function of the actor, the partner, and the unique dyadic relationship between these two. Meta‐analyses showed intriguing sex differences and similarities. Self characteristics better predicted women's attraction than they did for men, whereas partner characteristics predicted men's attraction far better than they did for women. The strongest predictor of attraction for both sexes was partners' physical attractiveness. Finally, there was some support for the reciprocity principle but no evidence for the similarity principle.
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In a speed-dating study, initial romantic attraction was shaped by actor, partner, and unique dyadic effects, with partner physical attractiveness the strongest predictor for both sexes. Similarity showed no evidence, while reciprocity appeared mainly after participants learned their partners’ reactions.
Key findings
- Social Relations Model variance partitioning showed attraction was substantially explained by actor, partner, and relationship effects: for men, averages were 34% actor, 21% partner, and 46% relationship; for women, 35% actor, 25% partner, and 39% relationship.
- Partner physical attractiveness was the strongest and most consistent predictor for both sexes (men r = .80, women r = .88, both p < .01); no other partner characteristic replicated across gender.
- Self characteristics predicted women’s attraction better than men’s (7 of 22 significant for women vs. 3 of 22 for men), whereas partner characteristics predicted men’s attraction far better than women’s (12 of 22 significant for men vs. 2 of 22 for women).
- Similarity showed no support: none of the 44 correlations between couple dissimilarity and attraction reached significance, with a maximum magnitude of .13. At-event dyadic reciprocity was weak and nonsignificant (r = .18), but postevent dyadic reciprocity was significant (r = .45, p < .01).
Methods
- One hundred eight heterosexual college students (54 men, 54 women; average age 19.5 years) participated in six speed-dating events; each date lasted 5 minutes, with pre-event, at-event, and postevent assessments.
- Measures included demographics, physical attractiveness rated by eight research team members (interrater agreement .86), political attitudes, values, interests, Big Five personality, affectivity, self-esteem, and adult attachment; attraction was measured with three items after each date.
- Data were analyzed with Kenny’s Social Relations Model using BLOCKO to partition actor, partner, and relationship variance, followed by meta-analyses across the six groups to pool correlations and test sex differences.
Limitations
- The paper states that participants were college students at a fairly large public university in the southeast, so findings may differ from non-college adults in commercial speed-dating services who are seriously looking for life partners.
- The paper also states that speed-dating is not the only or most common situation in which people first meet future partners.
- Evident in the text: the sample was modest (108 participants across six groups), the design was correlational rather than experimental, attraction was self-reported, and the dyadic relationship effect was not fully explained by the similarity and reciprocity variables tested.
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“All three components contributed to a substantial amount of variance in romantic attraction.”
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“For women, seven characteristics showed a significant correlation with attraction: age, weight, art and social activities, extroversion, openness, and positive affect.”
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“Meta-analyses of sex differences show that five characteristics had statistically significant sex differences: age, fun, habitual activity, conservatism, and positive affect.”
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§ Personal Values
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“| Extrinsic value | .71 (9) | 3.80 | .49 | 3.88 | .51 |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Luo, S., & Zhang, G.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina Wilmington (US)
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- Corresponding author
- Luo, Shanhong
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 933-964
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W1994100281
- Cited by
- 246
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 59 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 4.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- romantic attraction, speed dating, similarity laws, reciprocity, physical attractiveness, social security, sex differences, partner characteristics, dyads, social relations model
- MeSH terms
- Beauty, Courtship, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sex Factors, Social Desirability, Students, United States, Reproducibility of Results, Young Adult
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