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 * NOTE: Teacher notes available. Please email: simon_king@caryacademy.org

Final Project: A Test of The Matching Hypothesis

Design and conduct and experiment that tests for the Matching Hypothesis.

"The matching hypothesis proposes that we don't seek the most physically attractive person** //(as a partner)// **but that we are attracted to individuals who match us in terms of physical attraction. This compromise is necessary because of a fear of rejection (a more attractive person might reject your advances) and/or to achieve a balance between partners." //Michael W. Eysenck "A2 Level Psychology"// //Psychology Press, p.4, 200////9//

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 * Resources:

Sample Data Collection Sheet **

Analysis - Spearman's Rank Correlation on JMP. media type="custom" key="5392903"
 * __Test of Association__**


 * Sources:**

Michael W. Eysenck "A2 Level Psychology" //Psychology Press//, 2009.

Ellen Bercheid, Karen Dion, Elaine Walster and G.William Walster "Physical Attractiveness and Dating Choice: A Test of the Matching Hypothesis" //Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 7, 173-189 (1971)//

Daniel Bar-Tal, Leonard Saxe, "Perceptions of Similarly and Dissimilarly Attractive Couples and Individuals" //Journal of Personality and Social Psychology//, 1976, Vol. 33

S. Michael Kalick, Thomas E. Hamilton III "The Matching Hypothesis Reexamined" //Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986, Vol. 51, No. 4, 673-682//

[|http://www.elainehatfield.com/]

[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_hypothesis]

Gerald Westover, Graham Smithers "Advanced Modular Statistics: Statistics 3", Collins, 2000
 * Text for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (including theory, examples and practice)**