Interpersonal attraction: Competence motivation and reinforcement theory.

Attraction as a linear function of proportion of positive reinforcements.

Donn Byrne, Don Nelson · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1965 · 682 citations

Dentistry, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +2

Effectance arousal and attraction.

Donn Byrne, Gerald L. Clore · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1967 · 152 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Experimental Psychology +4

Interpersonal attraction: The role of agreement and topic interest.

Gerald L. Clore, Barbara Baldridge · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1968 · 114 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +14

The effect of topic importance and attitude similarity-dissimilarity on attraction in an intrastranger design

Donn Byrne, Oliver London, William Griffitt · Psychonomic Science · 1968 · 107 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +10

Effects of consensual validation and invalidation on attraction as a function of verifiability

Donn Byrne, Don Nelson, Keith Reeves · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1966 · 75 citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +12