PSY354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Putamen, Psychosexual Development, Bulbourethral Gland
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Love & attraction builds up over time. Think someone is physically attracted and not find their personality attractive. Beauty is & is not entirely in the eye of the beholder. Masculinity-femininity is an important dimension of attractiveness. If people are asked to make a person more attractive. Make the person consistently more feminine regardless of if its a male or female. Super masculine judged as cold or calculating. D found to be most attractive (~45% of participants) Babyfacedness bigger eyes, take up a bigger percentage. Baby faces positive feelings, feeling of protection. Thought to be more attractive as feelings of warm and. Culture influences the attractiveness of the bodies protection. Looking at bmi index and attractiveness rating in 3 different cultures ; looking at 50 women (each dot = 1 female) Relative slimness/fatness (body mass index) often influences judgements. Bmi preferences are generally culturally determined (does not correspond of attractiveness with healthy bmi)
