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Attraction: Theories

When it comes to interpersonal attraction and intimate relationships, it is popularly believed that love is what makes the world go round, although Rubin and McNeil (1983) believed it had more to do with liking. They proposed that love, was not an ‘intense physical symptom’ but that it was a particular sort of attitude that one person has towards another.

Dion et al (1972) picked up on this opinion of love being merely an attitude and devised the attractiveness stereotype. He found that photos of more attractive people were credited with more desirable qualities, thus forming the hypothes...

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