physical attractiveness

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  • Created on: 07-01-20 14:08
what theory does this draw upon
evoluntionary theory
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what did shakelford and Larson discover
poeple with symmetrical faces are more attractive
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why would symmetry be important
signal of genetic fitness
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What features are people more attracted to? Give three examples.
Neotonous features ( baby face), large eyes, delicate chin, small nose
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Why?
Triggers a caring or protective instinct.
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What did McNulty find?
Initial attractiveness continued to be an important feature in a relationship, after marriage.
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Why else might physical attractiveness matter?
Because of the preconcieved ideas of the personality of an attractive person ( i . e attractive people being nice )
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What is this effect?
The Halo effect.
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What did Dion et al find?
Physically attractive people were rated as kind, strong, sociable and successful compared to unattractive people.
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What is the Halo effect?
It is when one distinguishing feature (physical attractiveness) has a disproptionate influence on our judgement of their other attributes.
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Who proposed the matching hypothesis?
Elaine Walster. (Lad)
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What does this hypothesis suggest?
That we choose romantic partners because we believe that they are similarly attractive to us.
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In what way is this a compromise?
Because we desire the most physically attractive partner for evolutionary and cultural reasons, yet we balance this with our fear of being rejected.
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In what way is Katie a big meanie?
ALL OF THE WAYS
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Who's (2 people) research supports the halo effect
palmer and Peterson
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What did they find
physically attractive people were rated as more politically knowledgable and copetant than unattractive people
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what implications does their research have
it has implications for the poitical process - politicians may be judged as suitable merely based off their physical attrativeness
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what theory does Feingold's research support
the matching hypothesis
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what type of study did Feingold carry out
a meta-analysis
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what did Feingold find
A significant correlation in ratings of attractiveness between romantic partners
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why is this especially supportive
the studies looked at actual partners - more realistic
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What is significant about physical attractiveness across cultures
it's remarkably consistent
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does the halo effet work across cultures
yes
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whose studied proved the halo effect work cross-culturally
Wheeler and Kim
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What were their findings
found that Koeran and American students judged psychiclly attractive people to be more trustworthy, mature and caring
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Whose research contradicts matching pairs hypothesis
Taylor et al.
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who did taylor study
activit logs of popular online dating sites
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what did the online daters seek
potential partners who were more attractive than them
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