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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 3, 397-403 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167283093010
© 1983 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

The Effects of Self-Esteemand Self-Consciousness on Interpersonal Attraction

Kathy Lloyd

Tufts University

Jane Paulsen

Tufts University

Joel Brockner

University of Arizona

This study investigates the effects of rater and target similarity along the personality dimensions of self-esteem, private self-consciousness, and public self-consciousness on interpersonal attraction. Previously unacquainted opposite-sex subject pairs completed personality measures and engaged in ten-minute conversation with each other. After the conversation all subjects rated their partner's attractiveness. The traits of self-esteem and public self-consciousnesss produced rater x target interaction effects. Subjects liked one another more when they were similar rather than dissimilar along these dimensions. Private self-consciousness yielded a target main effect, such that targets were liked more if they were high rather than low in private self-consciousness. Implications are discussed.


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