When Julia and Lyle were dating,their friends thought to themselves,"It will never last.Although he's not bad looking,she is much too beautiful for him." Their friends' statement suggests that Julia and Lyle's relationship violated the ____.

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The matching hypothesis proposes that people tend to form romantic relationships with others who are similar in physical attractiveness. Julia and Lyle's friends believed that Julia was "much too beautiful" for Lyle, suggesting that their physical attractiveness levels did not match. Therefore, their relationship violated the matching hypothesis.

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