Factors Affecting Attraction: Physical Attractiveness
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- Factors Affecting Attraction: Physical Attractiveness
- Importance of Physical Attractiveness
- Shackelford and Larsen (1997)
- Neotenous faces are also attractive.
- Widely separated & large eyes.
- Delicate chin.
- Small nose.
- Features trigger protective instinct, valuable for females wanting to reproduce.
- McNulty (2008)
- Initial attractiveness when relationship starts continues to be important after marriage - and for several years after.
- The Halo Effect
- Physically attractiveness matters due to preconceived ideas about the personality traits attractive people must have.
- Universally positive.
- Karen Dion (1972)
- Physically attractive people are consistently rated as kind, strong, sociable and successful - in comparison to non-attractive people.
- Belief that people have these traits = more attractive to us. Results in us behaving positively towards them.
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Hale Effect: one distinguishing feature has disproportion-ate influence on our judgements of a person's other attributes - E.G. personality
- Physically attractiveness matters due to preconceived ideas about the personality traits attractive people must have.
- The Matching Hypothesis
- Elaine Walster (1966)
- People choose partners with similar physical attractiveness
- Make judgements on our own 'value' to a potential partner.
- Desire most attractive partner, for evolutionary & psychological reasons.
- But wish to avoid rejection from someone 'out of our league'.
- Difference between what we want in a partner, and what we're prepared to settle for.
- Importance of Physical Attractiveness
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