research

• murstein 1972 matching photographs


  used photographs of 197 couples (engaged or dating), photographs of each partner alone were used so each person could be judged individually
• murstein 1972 matching photographs


  eight judges rated individual photographs according to attractiveness, found photographs of couples were consistently given similar attractiveness rating compared to randomly matched pairs
• murstein 1972 matching photographs


  suggests that as predicted by matching hypothesis individuals are more likely to select partners who are judged by other to be similar level of attractiveness as themselves
• feingold 1988


  complete a meta analysis including 18 studies on the matching hypothesis containing a total of 1644 couples and found overall positive correlation in attractiveness ratings of couples