Beyond initial attraction: physical attractiveness in newlywed marriage.
Beyond initial attraction: physical attractiveness in newlywed marriage.
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10.1037/0893-3200.22.1.135
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2008-02
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J. McNulty;Lisa A. Neff;B. Karney
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作者：
J. McNulty;Lisa A. Neff;B. Karney
外表在塑造新的关系中起着至关重要的作用，但它是否会继续影响已建立的关系，如婚姻？在目前的研究中，作者研究了观察者对配偶面部吸引力的评分以及这些评分之间的差异如何与（a）社会支持行为的观察和（B）婚姻满意度的报告相关。与吸引力水平对新关系的强大且几乎普遍的积极影响相反，吸引力水平与这些婚姻结果之间的唯一联系是有吸引力的丈夫不太满意。此外，与吸引力对新关系的重要性相反，吸引力的相似性与配偶的满意度和行为无关。相反，伴侣之间的吸引力水平的相对差异似乎在预测婚姻行为方面最重要，例如配偶双方在妻子比丈夫更有吸引力的关系中表现得更积极，但在丈夫比妻子更有吸引力的关系中，他们表现得更消极。这些结果突出了配偶的品质对婚姻的影响的双重检查的重要性。
Physical appearance plays a crucial role in shaping new relationships, but does it continue to affect established relationships, such as marriage? In the current study, the authors examined how observer ratings of each spouse's facial attractiveness and the difference between those ratings were associated with (a) observations of social support behavior and (b) reports of marital satisfaction. In contrast to the robust and almost universally positive effects of levels of attractiveness on new relationships, the only association between levels of attractiveness and the outcomes of these marriages was that attractive husbands were less satisfied. Further, in contrast to the importance of matched attractiveness to new relationships, similarity in attractiveness was unrelated to spouses' satisfaction and behavior. Instead, the relative difference between partners' levels of attractiveness appeared to be most important in predicting marital behavior, such that both spouses behaved more positively in relationships in which wives were more attractive than their husbands, but they behaved more negatively in relationships in which husbands were more attractive than their wives. These results highlight the importance of dyadic examinations of the effects of spouses' qualities on their marriages.