... all different so therefore generalisation is difficult. In addition there are cultural issues also as the white American students were studied only. However, Walster, in a second study, six months later used the matching hypothesis and tracked some of the students down and asked if they had dated their partners since and results showed that they were more likely to do so if they were of similar physical attractiveness. Exposure and familiarity is another factor to the formation of relationships as suggested by Saegert, when participants in his study were asked to do market research on rating drinks was that when some were interrupted by the same person once, twice, five or ten times and were then asked afterwards what they thought of the stranger. Results showed that the more they saw the stranger the more positive they felt about them. Another study supporting this idea is when students were shown ...

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