Factors Affecting Immediate Attraction

In people’s perspective, attractiveness possess a wide variety of positive personal qualities compared to unattractive people. Result from the study on physical attractiveness stereotypes show the attractive people had the most positive ratings. For example, they are judged as less disturbed, rated as happier and more successful, and more likely to be hired after a job interview. Thus, the concept of attractiveness having a correlation between an individual’s physical appearance and his/her achievements, abilities, psychological well-being and/or other status characteristics to create a perception is

This essay aims to show a comparison between the differences between both female short-term mating strategies and female long-term mating strategies. It will explore the evolution of psychology that has shown reasons for human mating and how these reasons go above and beyond the general idea of physical attractiveness and love. This essay will identify how mate preferences have evolved and further identify psychological mechanisms that women have used to select their mates over the past. This essay will compare and critically discuss the differences and outline them between female short-term mating strategies and female long-term mating

70% of ladies admitted that they would ignore or avoid a potential love interest because of the way they looked (Buchanan). We live in a world where superficial beauty is an important advantage especially when choosing a partner in life. People try their hardest to look attractive and gone are the days when inner beauty are more accounted for. What if you have the opportunity to choose between an understanding, kind but not good-looking guy and an inconsiderate, selfish but stunningly appealing man? The 2017 Disney movie Beauty and the Beast is an epic hero myth which shows us that real love and beauty are not only about physical appearance but looking beyond what you can see and seeing one’s character within.

Past research has demonstrated that there exists a connection between smiling and physical attractiveness. A smiling person was perceived as more intelligent and could create in the perceiver a warmer feeling than a nonsmiling person. This study evaluates whether smiling vs. not smiling and rater’s gender have an effect on attractiveness ratings of a male and a female dating profile. Furthermore, it predicts that there will be a main effect of smiling on the ratings of both, male and female dating profiles. Moreover, it also predicts that there will be an interaction of rater’s gender and smiling for the female profile. However, the results did not support this statement, there was not a main effect of rater’s gender on any of the dating profiles. Both profiles male and female, were better rated when the person was smiling. Indicating that people prefer smiling over the non-smiling faces. On the other hand, no interaction was observed between rater’s genders and smiling for male and female profile.

In the last few years a lot of research has been performed in the area of mate choice. This review highlights which kinds of signals affect our choice for a partner, discusses the most commonly known principles of beauty and considers the role of cultural differences and the beauty ideal propagated by the media.

When the adolescents were rating the different characteristics the results were as followed, boys rated attractiveness higher than the girls and social status wasn’t important to either group. In the vignette portion of the research, when the social status and the attractiveness were displayed on pictures, it showed that both groups found attractiveness important. Social status was only important for the boys when the mate was attractive and the girls found social status was important whether attractive or not. Lastly, as stated by Ha (2009) “self-perceived mate value moderated the relationship between attractiveness and dating desire for both boys and girls.” Also stated be Ha (2009) “adolescents who perceived themselves as having high mate value showed more dating desire if the other person was attractive compared to adolescents who perceived themselves as having a lower mate value.”

In the article “Why We Form Relationships,” as well as in our textbook “Interplay”, the authors define certain aspects that influence why we choose the relationships we choose. They both show that appearance is a big part of what influences our choices. Most people are raised to not judge a book by its cover, however without even meaning to we decide who we will let in our circle within seconds of seeing someone. Along with appearance, we seek out similarities in others, such as same taste in food, liking the same sports teams, or having the same hobbies. We also look for people that can give us any kind of reward at low cost; whether that reward is tangible, such as a gift, or intangible, such as emotional support.

Both articles claim that love at first sight exists. There are strengths in each article that make it believable. In the article “Science Explains Instant Attraction” there are many strengths that make it believable. There is research evidence, quotes from the people to who ran the experiment and scientific terms for parts of the brain they were talking about all makes it believable. An example of research evidence is, “Some 63 percent of the time their initial , photograph based interest in dating a person was baked up by their real decision,”. An example of quotes from the people running the experiment is, “We joked quite a bi that we hoped there might be a wedding someday, but no invitations have come through yet,” This was said by

It is stated in chapter 6, “Although it is not uncommon to hear people muse about inner beauty being the only thing that really counts, research suggests that outer beauty, our physical attractiveness, plays an influential role in determining responses for a broad range of interpersonal encounters.” Some of these physical aspect that affect our emotions are physical attractiveness, scent, facial features, and clothing. These are mainly self explanatory, but one can see how these could play a role in how we feel. Physical attractiveness is how attractive we are physically, particularly the body. Facial Features are the features of a face. How does a face look, does it have small eyes or big eyes? Does it have a big nose or small nose? Things along the lines of this. One particular issue with these, is that they are not always easy to change like clothing and scent. It was stated in the reading, that “Two physical features of men preferred by women for short-term or casual sexual relationships were features of masculinity in the face—thicker eyebrows, smaller eyes, thinner lips, and a squarer jaw, as in Figure 6-1—and a high shoulder-to-waist ratio” (Knapp, Hall, & Horgan, 2014, p. 158). It was also found that for women, the waist-to-hip ratio plays a significant role in attractiveness, “The waist-to-hip ratio of women plays an important role in men’s judgments of women’s physical attractiveness” (Knapp,

Experiments were even made to determine whether the attractiveness of someone impacts how they’re treated by strangers. The author, Keith Morrison, of Face Value Hidden Camera Investigation: Do Looks Really Matter? gives the reader his opinion saying, “Sometimes we attach too much importance on beauty” He bears the questions, “Does preference for physical attractiveness go deeper than romance? Are beautiful people treated better, at say a bank or at a doctor's office?” Those questions are answered by an experiment made by

The five factors that predict interpersonal relationships are: proximity, familiarity, similarity, physical appearance, and reciprocity. Proximity refers to the geographical location of persons. People are more likely to initiate, engage, or maintain relationships if someone’s geographical location is near or convenient to the person they are to pursue. Relationships, whether romantic or platonic, are not as likely to be initiated if the proximity does not allow individuals to cross paths or maintain a certain level of communication. As well, familiarity plays an important role in the fostering of relationships. People are said to have an increased attraction and fondness for individuals that they see more often than those they do not. In lay terms, similarity can be summed up by saying that people enjoy the presence of those like (or similar) to them. Individuals are more often drawn to and feel less intimidated by others that share their culture and belief systems; thus, are more likely to form relationships with them. Next, is physical attractiveness; which can be defined in two different ways. First off, people tend to believe that beautiful things equal good things and are more likely to seek out relationships with individuals they find beautiful. However, people are also likely to form relationships with people they believe to be on

The tables are different, one is about what men seek in a relationship. Next, the second one is about what the women look in men and the last one is about what men and women are looking in a relationship. All this will help to be able to give a more precise description of the way that the University of Texas at San Antonio students thinks. In the survey done to the men, there was a total of 28 traits. In several occasions the traits were repeated; in other words, an overall of 271 tallies were used. In the results, there was a big difference between the traits most selected and the less. The trait that more men selected was funny with a total of 16.6 %. In another hand, which was less mentioned was stable with 0.04 %. The most representative or significant traits are six, after these traits the percentages declined drastically. The most prominent are funny, attractive, honest, smart, loyal and trust. On the contrary, the top five of traits less mentioned are: cuddles, feminine, openness, selfness and stable. Many women say that men only care about how women look. The data set showcase that it is an important factor for them, but it is not everything. In the top five is mentioned attractive; nevertheless, the other four traits are related to the personality. In general terms, the men look more for a woman with big personality and of course without leaving behind the beauty. In the following

and Kamenica, Emir and Simonson, Itamar. In the research, the scholars analyze gender differences in dating preferences by using an experimental Speed Dating market. Most of the subjects in their research were students in graduate and professional schools at Columbia University and they participated in a four-minute conversation and determined whether or not they are interested in meeting each other again. After the each conversation, they would fill out a scorecard for the person based on three kinds of characteristics -- attractiveness, intelligence and ambition. Researchers gathered and analyzed the data by using statistics methods and building models and they found that women think highly of intelligence, the race and family background of partners while men care about physical attractiveness more. In addition, men don’t prefer the partner’s intelligence and ambition higher than them. (Raymond et al. 2006)

In a study introduced by Dr. Earl Naumann, two-hundred and fifty university students answered questions over the traits of a person who they fell in love with at first sight during a survey. “Physical attraction, similarity, ethnicity/ race, education level, and personal demographic information” consisted of the questions in the survey (Braxton-Davis, p. 7). This survey resulted in over seventy-five percent of the students stating that they value personality over physical attractiveness and career achievements in the overall attraction of an individual (Braxton-Davis, 2010). Through this survey, it supports the idea of love at first sight as merely a figment of physical attraction. In this case, research supports the difficulty to pursue individuals based on their personality by simply making eye contact or witnessing them in a public setting.

A few relationships tend to be based solely on their partner’s level of attractiveness. We determine how attractive someone is, “ the prejudice of deciding what to do based solely on outward appearance could cost the pursuer the chance of a meaningful relationship” (Modern Day Adages). Although someone is “better” looking doesn’t mean anything when it comes to their character and personality. An “average” person can be more beautiful on the inside than a “better” looking person. As a society, we need to give others the opportunity to show themselves even if they’re “average.”