The Effects of Physical Attractiveness and Need for Approval on Self-Disclosure
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 3 (1) , 63-66
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727600300108
Abstract
Ninety-six female college students, who had obtained either low, moderate, or high scores on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, believed that they would meet a physically attractive or unattractive male as part of a study on the acquain tance process. After viewing a photo of the bogus partner, sub jects wrote a self-description which would ostensibly be shown to him. Results indicated that intimacy of self-disclosure was greater to the attractive than unattractive target persons, and that intimacy of self-disclosure was inversely related to subject's need for approval. Implications of the physical attractiveness effects on self-disclosure for the process of friendship formation were also discussed.Keywords
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