Initial Filters

• Key filter at this stage is physical attractiveness
• Considerable pre-selection of the types of people we come into contact with:

  Those from our own ethnic, racial, religious, class and educational groups who we hang around the same places we do
• Includes proximity, ethnicity/race, class, education and religion
• Usually social and demographic

  Reduce 'field of alternatives' down to those people that we could realistically meet