CHAPTER 11 ATTRACTION AND INTIMACY: LIKING AND LOVING OTHERS What Leads to Friendship and Attraction? Proximity Interaction Anticipation of Interaction Mere Exposure Physical Attractiveness Attractiveness and Dating The Matching Phenomenon The Physical-Attractiveness Stereotype Who Is Attractive? Similarity Versus Complementarity Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Do Opposites Attract? Liking Those Who Like Us Attribution Relationship Rewards What Is Love? Passionate Love A Theory of Passionate Love Variations in Love: Culture and Gender Companionate Love What Enables Close Relationships? Attachment Attachment Styles Equity Long-Term Equity Perceived Equity and Satisfaction Self-Disclosure How Do Relationships End? Divorce The Detachment Process