PSY-0013 Lecture Notes - Physical Attractiveness
19 Feb 2014
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Need to belong: a pervasive drive to form and maintain lasting, positive and significant interpersonal relationships (baumeister & leary, 1995: a fundamental human drive and motive. We have built-in sociostats to help us achieve balance: rats more likely to approach other rats after a period of isolation, less likely to approach after a long period of contact. Successful people seen as more attractive (rinolo et al. , 2006: objective standards for beauty. People tend to agree on what is attractive regardless of their own appearances (lee et al. , 2008) European men are attracted to hourglass figures, specifically women with 0. 7 waist-to-hip ratios. Symmetrical faces also more attractive: beautiful people are good. An analysis of the top-grossing films between 1940-1990 showed that attractive characters are depicted as virtuous (smith et al. , 1999) Attractiveness: matching hypothesis, people stay in their leagues . Attitudes: lykken and tellegen (1993): people first discard dissimilar people and then the process is random.
