Abstract
This study provided an explanation of selections by others to meet based on composites of qualities imputed to the others. 60 undergraduate men made attraction-responses to male targets consensually identified as representative of five levels of attractiveness. Attraction responses were attributions of personality traits and the selection of a target person to meet. The attribution of socially desirable and egocentric qualities increased and the attribution of psychopathological qualities decreased with increasing attractiveness of the target. All targets except the most attractive were seen as indistinguishable in terms of kindness, and the most attractive were seen as less kind. While selections of target persons to meet increased with the increasing attractiveness of the targets, those of moderately high attractiveness were selected more often than were the most attractive targets. An aggregate of attributional favorability was shown to predict target selections. The results were explained in terms of a social-exchange theory of human relations.
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