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Interpersonal Attraction
Klohen, Eva C. & Shanghong Lao. (2003) "Interpersonal Attraction and Personality." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Vol. 85. No 4, 709-722.
Although the 'rules' of interpersonal attraction, or the mysterious process and reasons that we are attracted to certain individuals and not to others, are often obfuscated by romantic language, the authors of this article attempt to clarify the data that does exist as to whether opposites do indeed attract, or if we seek someone like ourselves, someone like our ideal self, and if security of reciprocal attachment is more important than other factors in attachment.
One of the most interesting studies cited early on by the authors, and critical in shaping the dynamics of their own study, is a personality evaluation of different attraction patterns, as performed by Bartholomew and Horowitz. This study attempted to break down different attachment styles and patterns into four different categories, based on the degrees of manifested anxiety or avoidance. Bartholomew...
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Bartholomew's and Horowitz's study provided an important nuance in analyzing whether people prefer partners who are more like themselves or complementary to themselves. Instead, Bartholomew's and Horowitz's categorization suggests one's own sense of self-worth and anxiety about relationships may affect one's choice of a partner, as well as one's decision to seek out someone who is like or unlike one's self in terms of attachment style, or to avoid relationships altogether.
The authors of the article discovered that all personality types preferred a secure attachment…
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