Methods
Participants
Similar to the Martin, Bradford, Drzewiecka & Chitgopekar, (2003) study, data will be collected from a group of 300 or more white college students from the Midwest region of America. Additionally, data will be collected from 300 or more black college students from the southeast region of America. Specifically, students from Luther college and NCA&T university will be assessed by using a questionnaire from Martin, Bradford, Drzewiecka & Chitgopekar, (2003) study that was modeled after Lamp’s (1981,1982) questionnaire used in the study of Interethnic dating. A few modifications will be made to the questionnaire to better suit the purposes of this study such as tailoring some questions to be more qualitative for acquiring specific details and other questions to use Likert-type measures acquire data that is more precise on aspects that affect attraction as a function of race.…