PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 45: Speed Dating, Online Dating Service, Physical Attractiveness
10 Nov 2018
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Chapter 45: Prosocial Relations
I. Attraction
A. Psychology of Attraction
1. Three Ingredients of our liking for one another: proximity, attractiveness,
and similarity
2. Proximity
a) Friendships can only become close if they begin.
b) This factor is friendship’s most powerful predictor.
c) Studies show that those who live in the same neighborhood or
close distance in any environment are prone to marry each other.
d) Why so? Because of the mere exposure effect (continuous
exposure = to increase liking of them)
3. Modern Matchmaking
a) Those who cannot find a mate in their proximity might test their
luck by using online dating services.
(1) Cons: dishonesty in one’s appearance online, job, age, life,
etc.
b) When one spends twenty minutes or so talking to someone online,
they’ll start a liking for that person than one does with someone
they met face to face.
c) Internet relationships sometimes feel as real and important to
people as in-person relationships.
d) Speed dating
pushes the search for romance into high gear.
e) What have people found on studies that involve speed dating:
(1) Men are more transparent.
(2) With more options, people’s choices become more
superficial.
(3) Women tend to me more choosy; Men wish for more
encounters on speed dates
4. Physical Attractiveness
a) LOOKS
(1) Women are more likely to say that another’s looks do not
affect them. However, research states that a man’s looks
do affect women’s behavior.
(2) Physical attractiveness also predicts how often people date
and how popular they feel.
(3) Attractive, well-dressed people have been more likely to
make a favorable impression on potential employers
(4) A person’s looks have nothing to do with their self-esteem
and happiness.
(5) Attractive people are sometimes cautious that the praise of
their work may be a reaction to their appearance.
Document Summary
Because of the mere exposure effect exposure = to increase liking of them) Physical attractiveness: looks (1) women are more likely to say that another"s looks do not affect them. People with symmetrical faces and bodies are more sexually attractive: feelings (1) feelings also influence attractiveness. (a) example : two people: 1 is honest, funny, and polite; the other is rude, unair, and abusive. Both (a) as we see our loved ones again and again, their physical imperfections grow less noticeable and their attractiveness grows more apparent: similarity, the more alike people are, the more their liking endures. Similarity breeds content: mutual likeness, similarity, proximity, and attractiveness are not the only factors. Initial impressions friendships intense, complex, and mysterious state of romantic love. Intimacy can also grow when we pause to think and write our feelings. Unselfish concern for the welfare of others: bystander intervention. Peacemaking: elements of conflict, conflict , social traps.
