Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Interpersonal Attraction, Classical Conditioning, Human Sexual Activity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Let"s look at the psychological and biological variables that have been thought to play a role in interpersonal attraction: situational variables. If you are in exciting or scary surroundings, you may misinterpret your emotional arousal as attraction towards your date, a phenomenon called misattribution of arousal. In the bizarre category of attractiveness characteristics, names can be thought of as attractive: researchers found that women with names like jennifer, Christine, and kathy and men with names like dave, joe, and. Should be opposite for partner"s: 90% chose the non mirrored for their partners, 75% overall, people with more symmetrical faces may have chosen their normal. Some genes involved in immunity are involved with our scent. Immune system makeup that"s different may seem more attractive. Interactions that don"t follow these rules can feel uncomfortable: next become verbal greetings, and these can be positive or negative. From here we move to more meaningful communications, but things can get tricky here.