physical attraction mind map
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- Created on: 04-02-19 10:35
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- physical attractiveness
- matching hypothesis and halo effect
- Dion et al: attractive people are consistently rated as successful;, kind and sociable.
- By choosing someone with similar social desirability it creates a high chance of affection being reciprocated
- Attractive people rate their own potential and then select people who are most likely to be attracted to them.
- When people look for a partner, they look for someone whose social desirability equals their own.
- Research examining:
- Palmer and Peterson: asked people to rate attractive and unattractive people in terms of how knowledgeable they perceived them to be. attracted people were rated higher.
- Walster: 752 1st year students at the uni of Minnesota to attend a dance party.
- randomly matched a partenr where in intervals thorugh the party and 4 to 6 months later whther they found their partner attractive.
- higher appreciation for their partner if the partner was attractive regardless of their own level of attractiveness
- randomly matched a partenr where in intervals thorugh the party and 4 to 6 months later whther they found their partner attractive.
- Feingold: meta analysis of 17 studies using real-life couples. strong correlation between partner's ratings of attractiveness
- Evaluation:
- Taylor et al: investigated activity log on a dating website. People are more likely to try and arrange a meeting wiht spmeone who was more physically attractive
- Towhey: gave ppts photos of strangers and some biographical info. asked to nrate how much they liked the persin. attractveness was moire importnat for those with sexist attitudes- mesaured by speciallkyt desiugned qurestinnaire.
- Mainly applies to short term relationships: for long term people focus on similarity of values
- Questions the validity: only describes a limited number of relationships.
- cannot explain why less attractive, older ,men are sometimes married to younger more attractive women
- ignores the fact that people compensate with intellect.
- cannot explain why less attractive, older ,men are sometimes married to younger more attractive women
- Questions the validity: only describes a limited number of relationships.
- Issues and debates:
- Beta bias- assumes men and women are similar in their view of importance on physical attractiveness
- Melter et al: men rate their long term relationships more satisfying if their partner is physically attractive but women suggested it didn't have a significant impact
- Based on a nomothetic approach to generate general behavioral laws, however studies suggest that there are significant individual differences
- Beta bias- assumes men and women are similar in their view of importance on physical attractiveness
- matching hypothesis and halo effect
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