PSY 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trait Theory, Averageness, Egotism
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Short answers - content = one question from each chapter. What features of face perception are important in attractiveness. Symmetry and averageness full lips small chin, big eyes. Leading towards yes- but too early to tell. 0. 7 waist to hips for women 0. 9 for men. Had grown over the past 10 years. Hard to say based off the algorithm. Been around since the 50s - strong field of study. Classical and operant conditioning paradigms attempt to predict people"s attraction for one another. Intimate relationship researchers have been heavily influenced by this. These theories may not be appropriate for exploring the complexities of intimate relationship formations. Search for patterns of behaviours, look for commonalities across species, then if they can generalize to humans. How to get noticed: physical attractiveness, the other person must express interest in us. 2017: us ur, cs no response, pair cs + us ur, cs cr.