PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Body Shape, Advantageous, Work Ethic
4 Apr 2016
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Obsessive concern over body appearance (sometimes accompanied by crash dieting and whatnot) Maybe not knowing so much is a good thing if we took something like love and reduced it to science, then maybe it"d strip romantic love of its mystery. We"ve replaced religion with the concept of romantic love (because it provides us security (because religion has waned in western society and isn"t providing that for us) We know what makes people attractive to one another. When people in love, they experience an upsurge of oxytocin. Studied university students in love (self-reports) also tend to report to other psychological characteristics higher self- esteem, more diversity of self-concept, when people (aron. 3 factors that affect interpersonal attraction: familiarity, similarity, physical attractiveness. I familiarity: literally, how often we see someone. Your rate + reverse mirror = like more. Your rate + (true image) photo = like less. Friends rate + reverse mirror = like less.
