PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Distressing, Reciprocal Liking, Sad Movie
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Attraction, the desire to approach or be with someone, a motivational state in which we are predispose to think, feel, and behave positively towards something, characteristics of the target. Face: body, desirable traits, body proportions, waist to hip ratio, 0. 7 for women, 0. 9 for men, more likely to pass on the genetic material so their preferences have been passed on to us. If you look historically/cross culturally: overweight, average, overweight is what changes, 0. 7 is always preferred. Funny, intelligent: two major traits that influence attraction (2 dimensions, warmth (dimension) Intelligence, social skills, confidence: these are the two categories that most other traits fit into, these are pretty independent dimensions, you can be high or low on warmth but that tells you nothing about confidence and visa versa. Independent of one another: these are two independent dimensions, the most desirable people are high on both (warmth and confidence, the least desirable people are low on both, when they vary.
