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The effects of perceived and actual similarity in personality and values were examined in a five-wave longitudinal panel study. The study featured six eight-person natural living groups of initial strangers in a residence hall setting. Although actual value similarity caused perceived value similarity and both caused attraction as generally predicted by Newcomb's AB-X model, no consistent pattern of relationships was found for personality similarity and attraction. Non-obvious differences between these two types of similarity were then discussed. The magnitude of the effects of the value and personality similarity on the attractions formed in the natural setting were not nearly as pronounced as those reported by Byrne and his associates in their laboratory studies. Differences between the laboratory and the natural setting were then discussed to explain these diminished effects.
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Curry, T.J., Kenny, D.A. The effects of perceived and actual similarity in values and personality in the process of interpersonal attraction. Qual Quant 8, 27–43 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00205863
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