AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
![]() 7 Finally, a study of same-sex female couples found no similarity on affiliation and found that those who had opposite personalities when it came to dominance were actually less satisfied with their relationships. 6 Yet another study found good evidence for the phenomenon, with couples being similar on affiliation and opposite on dominance. 5 Another study of romantic couples found very little complementarity, except within highly satisfied couples. Only a few studies have examined complementarity in existing romantic relationships: In one study, in which undergraduate students rated their own parents’ personalities, complementarity appeared quite often, but greater complementarity was actually seen in divorced than still-married couples. ![]() For example, even cold people should still prefer to be with someone who is warm. 4 On the other hand, we might expect that everyone, regardless of their own personality, would prefer positive traits in others. According to this theory, we will prefer someone who is similar to us on affiliation (warm people like other warm people, and cold people like other cold people) and opposite on dominance (dominant people pair off with submissive people). cold and hostile) and control (dominant vs. The type of complementarity that has received the most attention from researchers examines two traits: affiliation (warm and friendly vs. This means that for some traits, similarity is most desirable, but for others, we prefer someone who is our opposite. 1,2,3 But some claim that when it comes to personality traits, we may be most interested in complementarity. Most research indicates that we do prefer to affiliate with others who are similar to us-who share our values and interests. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |