For people to form relationships contact is essential, most meet face-to-face but nowadays it is possible for people to form relationships online and to contact each other through social media and texting. Living near someone or working near them allows them easy contact but physical proximity is not longer so important because of technological improvements.
Physical appearance is also important in creating relationships. What makes people attractive is a combination of architechural factors and dynamic factors and these tend to evolve over time.
Murstein's match hypothesis looks at what is our most desired physically attractive quality, we try to find someone who is similar to us in levels of attractiveness so that we don't need to fear rejection. This can also be applied to friendships where the pair are fairly evenly matched in levels of physical attractiveness. Byrne proposed the 'law of attraction' which looks at similarities in attitude and interests because more similarities tends to mean easier communication. Having a similar socio-economic background and education is also important in the formation of relationships.
Hill, Rubin and Peplau also found similarity in race, class and religion were important factors in dating couples and pairs of friends.
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