The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of need for certainty on the functional relationship between level of attitude similarity and interpersonal attraction. It was hypothesized that persons having a high desire for certainty would be more attracted to those who agreed and less attracted to those who disagreed than Ss exhibiting a lower need for certainty. The data indicated a significant main effect for attitude similarity on attraction, but the hypothesized interaction with need for certainty was not significant.
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