Interpersonal attraction is, quite simply, the cause of friendships and relationships. It is a major point of psychological study. And there really isn't much hard data on why one person might be attracted to another and not attracted or even repelled by another. Interpersonal attraction, despite all the studies, is really a mystery.

There are certain principles at play, of course. It is believed that people are attracted to people with roughly the same level of physical attractiveness. And that people from the same social background and similar economic situations will experience the interpersonal attraction that brings them together.

But also that, in some cases, people who are very different in other respects are more likely to be attracted to each other and be happy together than two people who are very similar in aspects such as dominance and personality.

Interpersonal attraction is an area over which you have more control than you think. You can't necessarily focus on and attract a specific person, but you can use certain concepts to attract a certain type of person into your life.

The universal law of attraction tells us that like attracts like. Magnetic attraction will attract certain things to you based on what you believe. And the conscious creation of your own reality can also affect all of these things. You must first decide what you want in a person, then believe that a person who meets those criteria exists and can come into your life.

This belief in what you want and their availability to you will help bring a person with the qualities you desire into your life. Interpersonal attraction, the attraction of a person who complements us and would make a great friend or partner, is as affected by things like belief and thought as it is by other things like how happy we are, the kinds of situations we attract, and our financial situation.

If you can decide that you can have prosperity and therefore attract it, you can decide that you can have a positive person around you as your friend or your partner and then attract that person.

Your positive belief that you can get what you want automatically surrounds you with an aura of positivity. This alone will affect those you attract, giving off a signal to other positive people. If people tend to gravitate toward those who complement their personality, then your positive aura will attract other positive people.

Your openness to financial prosperity and good fortune will also work in your favor by attracting people into your life who have the same beliefs and openness. The power of positive thinking can do amazing things in all aspects of your life, not only in your job, your financial situation and your level of happiness, but also in the type of person you attract.

Since attraction must be mutual for it to work, believing certain positive and good things about yourself can help interpersonal attraction work for you in attracting the right people into your life.