Factors Affecting Attraction - Physical Attractiveness
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- Factors Affecting Attraction - Physical Attractiveness
- Importance of physical attractiveness
- Symmetrical faces are seen as a sign of genetic fitness. Baby-face features trigger a protective/caring instinct.
- Halo effect
- Preconceived ideas that attractive people have positive personality traits - kind, successful, sociable.
- Matching hypothesis
- The assessment of our own attractiveness may play a role in our choice of partner. we desire the most attractive partner but settle for someone on the same level of attractiveness as us.
- Research support for the halo effect
- Palmer & Peterson (2012) found that physically attractive people were rated as more politically "knowledgeable" even when they were known to have no expertise.
- Individual differences
- Towhey (1979) asked pts to rate how much they would like a target individual based on a photo and some biographical info as well as complete the MACHO questionnaire. He found that pts who scored highly on the scale based their choices off of physical attractiveness
- Research support for the matching hypothesis
- Feingold (1988) carried out a meta-analysis of 17 studies and found a significant correlation in ratings of attractiveness between romantic partners,
- Importance of physical attractiveness
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