PSY4111 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 – Principles of Attraction

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY4111
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Influences on human attraction physical attraction, arousal, similarity, proximity, affect, self- disclosure physical attraction; Best predictor of how much participants in blind dating were liked. Facial symmetry composite faces the most attractive. Red lips, flushed cheeks, signs of youth in women (neotenous features) Men masculinity, dominance, square jaw, clear small eyes, height, v-shape torso. Schachter and singer experience of emotion arises from awareness of our bodies arousal, emotion = arousal + label (cognitive interpretation) Love at first fright meston and frohlich photos rated before and after a rollercoaster, more attractive after rollercoaster. Bridge experiment dutton and aron approached in middle of bridge/ at end, more called the attractive assistant if approached in middle of the bridge. Likely for couples to share ethnicity, interests, beliefs etc. Avoid people out of our league (berscheid) Moreland and beach more lectures attended = higher attractiveness. If (cid:449)e (cid:373)eet people a(cid:374)d ha(cid:448)e positi(cid:448)e feeli(cid:374)gs, (cid:449)e like the(cid:373).