APCO 2P01 Lecture Notes - Timothy Leary, Interpersonal Attraction, Physical Attractiveness

• School: Brock University
• Department: Applied Computing
• Course: APCO 2P01
• Professor: Daniel Glenday

Document Summary

Interpersonal attraction refers to a person"s desire to approach another individual. We make a lot of inferences from a little bit of information, how they dress, how they talk, what they talk about. Turns out that there is one thing that is very important physical attractiveness. We act more positively, favorable to better looking people. Why do we consider physical attractiveness to such a degree: aesthetic appeal one idea is that we enjoy being with good looking people, because their physical beauty gives up aesthetic enjoyment. People consistently spend longer looking at a person if they are physically attractive: social rewards another reason we are attracted to physically attractive people is because we benefit from how they are treated. We treat good looking people a lot better than average looking people. Either way you benefit from being associated with a good looking person: positive stereotypes what is beautiful is good stereotype.