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Abstract: Walster's matching hypothesis claims that people are physically attracted to others who have a similar level of physical attractiveness to themselves. The aim of this investigation is to see whether this is true, by asking individuals to rate photographs of other individuals, both male and female. Each male and female individual in the photos were actually be couples, however the participants rating were unaware of this. The participants giving their ratings were twenty sixteen - eighteen year olds. Participants had to rate the photographs on a scale of 1 - 10, where 10 was the most attractive. As the critical value was o.56 at a significance level of 5%, the null hypothesis was accepted as the observed value was less than this at 0.42, meaning that the correlation was not significant. These findings therefore, imply that when one looks for a partner they do not go for someone who has...

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