The present study investigated the influence of ethnicity and culturally based non-verbal behavioural style on interpersonal attraction. Sixty-four Palagi female university students interacted with a Samoan or Palagi confederate in dyads under the guise of participating in an interview on friendship. Confederates were trained in the use of proxemic behaviours of both the Samoan and Palagi cultures. A post-experimental questionnaire included four scales of interpersonal attraction on which the subjects rated their perceptions of the confederate. It was predicted that both ethnicity and non-verbal behavioural style ·would influence interpersonal attraction with subjects showing greater preference for confederates using their own behavioural style, and confederates of their own ethnicity. A main effect for non-verbal behavioural style was gained, but no main effect was found for ethnicity. The implications of these findings are discussed in the broader context of cross-cultural communication.