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Filter theory

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FIELD OF AVAILABLES
1. Social demography
2. Similarities
3. Complimentary
FIELD OF DESIRABLES

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Who proposed filter theory

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Kerchkoff and Davies

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Social Demography

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  1. Geographical location
  2. Social class
  3. Level of education
  4. Ethnic group
  5. Religion
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Similarity in attitudes

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  • there is a need for partners in the earlier stages of a relationship to agree over basic values
  • this encourages greater and deeper communication and promotes self-disclosure
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Complementarity

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  • ## meeting each others needs
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Anderson et al

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  • found similarity increases over time suggesting complementarity is not necessarily a common feature of longer term relationships
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Davies and Rusbult

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  • discovered an attitude alignment effect in longer-term relationships
  • romantic partners over time bring their attitudes into line with each others, suggesting similarity is an effect of intial attarcation and not the cause
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Culture

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  • based on western culture where we can interact with lots of people as we live in an urban setting there are more opportunities
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