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Rogers (1959) developed an interpersonal congruency model that suggests the greater the degree of agreement among within-person perceptions of the self and a role partner, the more adjusted and satisfied with a relationship one would be. American college students were categorized as
occasional, steady or engaged daters and they provided ratings of self and partner on dimensions of perceived dating satisfaction, personal integrity, financial influence, and role of sexuality in the relationship.Congruency measures were then derived which allowed the assessment of cognitive
agreement in perceived self/partner perceptions. As predicted, respondents in the Engaged category displayed greater congruency in within-person perceptions than did those in the Occasional and Steady dating groups. There was also a tendency for women to display more within-person congruency
than men, particularly on matters involving finances and sex.

Researchers have proposed that life satisfaction may be increased by reduced life involvement (i.e., the scarcity hypothesis) or increased by greater life involvement (i.e., the expansion hypothesis). This study attempted to determine if female and male college students are more satisfied
with their lives if they have more or less active life styles. One hundred and fifty-seven females and eighty-six males were assigned to either a High, Moderate, or Low Life satisfaction group and additional instruments were administered to assess the manner of decision making, the extent
of role demands and time pressures, and the respondents' satisfaction with school performance and their dating and family relationships. Results demonstrated that both male and female college students with high life satisfaction had more demanding life styles than individuals with low
life satisfaction, but they did not suffer greater personal stress. The significant role of fulfilling interpersonal relationships in overall life satisfaction was also evident.

A religious "halo" effect has been identified wherein religiously active individuals are perceived more positively than nonreligious individuals. Religious individuals, when compared to nonreligious individuals, however, may fall further from social grace if they are perceived
as behaving in a manner inconsistent with religious ideal, (the religious "boomerang" effect). In the present study, male and female college students evaluated a frequent, occasional, or never church-goer on dimensions of morality, trustworthiness and friendship appeal. Later they
rated the female target on these dimensions following knowledge of her involvement in casual sex. Results demonstrated the presence of a religious halo operating in subjects' initial ratings of the religious female target, but following knowledge of her involvement in casual sex, a boomerang
effect was revealed on the subjects' morality ratings.

Males and females (N=185) were assigned to High and Low psychological kinship groups using the Nava and Bailey (1991) Kinship Scale. The KS measures an individual's desire to have "as-if' family type need fulfillment in nonbiologic relationships, such as dating. Ss
were asked to mentally visualize a present or past dating partner and to express love and liking for the partner as well as provide physical attractiveness ratings for self and partner. Results indicated that Hi Kinship Ss clearly loved and liked their dating partners more than Lo Kinship
Ss, and within-person congruency of physical attractiveness ratings characterized LoMales and Hi-Females. It appears that kinship need fulfillment can impaq3 cognitive functioning as well as affective responses (i.e., love-liking feelings).

Sixteen dating couples gave body build profiles for self, date, and the expected view of self by date along Sheldon's three physique components of endomorphy, mesomorphy, and ectomorphy. Correlations of these body build profiles indicated that daters had a greater need for the
partner to support their own body build concept than they did that the partner match their body build concept. In comparison to social judgments, males had distorted perceptions of the endomorphy component in self and date. Females had very accurate self-perceptions, although they erred in
the direction of perceiving their partner as matching a male ideal body build. Body build perceptions also related to several measures of dating attraction.

Previous research has indicated that physical attractiveness can "radiate" or spill over onto an interaction partner. This study examined the possible radiating effect of a newly discovered social stereotype, religiousness. Males (N=56) and females (N=119) college students
initially rated the religiousness of a male target and then each subject read one of five scenarios describing the male's dating partner's religious background. The female's religious background was described in four ways: 1) Always religious, 2) Recent religious convert, 3)
Recent religious heretic, 4) Never religious, and a fifth control condition which omitted information on the female's religious background. Following presentation of the scenarios, subjects again rated the boyfriend's religiousness. Analysis of pre- vs. post- scenario change scores
indicated the boyfriend's religiousness increased following knowledge of the girlfriend's long-term or recent religious involvement (positive radiation effect) but decreased following knowledge of the girlfriend's long-term or recent nonreligious involvement (negative radiation
effect). It was concluded that the radiation effects identified can serve to further expand our understanding of the interpersonal perceptions people hold of the religious and nonreligious.

Previous research suggests that a positive stereotype or "halo" is associated with the appearance of being religious. This study investigated how college students (81 males and 162 females) perceived male targets who did or did not publicly express religious beliefs in their
professional lives and who had access to varying sizes of public audiences (e.g. a TV personality, a college professor, and an accountant). Results demonstrated that, independent of the potential audience sizes, college students viewed a professional who actively expressed his religious beliefs
to be more liked, more intelligent, more trustworthy, more moral, and more personally adjusted than a nonexpressive professional. Future studies should examine the frequency, manner of expression. and content of religious expressions on person perception.

The Somatotype Rating Scale (SRS) was administered to 35 male and 35 female college students. The SRS allowed subjects to rate their own body build, their wished-for body build, and the body build of the typical and ideal male and female. While there was close agreement between males
and females on the measures, females exhibited more dissatisfaction with their body build and greater congruency between their self-concept and their same-sex stereotype than did males. Results were discussed as possibly revealing the emergence of a mesomorphic body build ideal in both sexes.

Twenty married couples were administered the Self-rating Scale of Intelligence and the Otis intelligence test. The SRSI provided subjects with the opportunity to make intelligent attributions for self, spouse, ideal spouse as well as to provide the expected rating of self by
the spouse. For husbands, two important within-person relationships were identified: perceived intelligence similarity between self and spouse and support for one's self-concept from the spouse. For wives, the most significant comparison was found between spouse-ideal spouse perceptions.
Positive correlations were generally found between self-other intelligence estimates and actual intelligence for both husbands and wives.