Physical Attraction And Dating Research

“Familiarity Does Indeed Promote Attraction in Live Interaction,” by Reis et al., explores the issue of whether familiarity breeds attraction within individuals in live interaction. The study’s purpose was to explore if familiarity did in fact promote liking in live interaction. This study was exploratory, as it sought to find, through two experiments, whether or not attraction increased with the amount of familiarity the participants had with one another.

Some males and females try to cash in by being greedy and choosing to get married for money; when they choose a partner that they can depend on for life. Most of victims are singers, self-employed businessmen/women, actresses, or elder rich singles. Although they may not be forced into the marriage, these wealthy persons are unaware of the ulterior motives of their partner. The effect of marrying only for love is the eventual unfold of the lies and deceits of the particular partner. Another effect is if that rich person loses their wealth, the outcome is all the same. Depending if the person lost wealth or the ‘victim’ finds out the true motive of the relationship they will most likely divorce this person and continue on their search for true love or money.

Dating back to the early 1900’s and all the way through to the present, romantic relationships have been viewed differently. From strict unwritten dating regulations to not having regulations at all, recent generations have become more liberated in making their own decisions. The progressing times have made us become a more accepting society and have caused a decrease in the strong practice of religion and class. Even though differences such as religion and class in relationships were more than an issue they were not always a complete deterrence.

Another factor in a person’s life is their socio-economic status in their culture. This is the status of poor, middle-class, and upper-class. Each is individually important to the culture for support and success. All

When discussing female long-term mating strategies, it has been identified that there are certain preferences in which a female desire from a mate (Buss, 2008). Preferences include, a preference for economic resources, a preference for industriousness and ambition, a preference for a good physical appearance and health, and also a preference for dependability and stability. Females prefer someone they can invest in and someone that is willing to invest in them also. And they also desire a mate that can physically protect them and their children and that is both healthy and displays compatibility. There are preconditions as too why these preferences have evolved, such as the idea that resources have been made more defensible and accruable and are more controlled by men, and the idea that men would have to be different between each other in their willingness to somewhat invest their resources in both women and their children. Belsky et al (1991) discovered that some men would rather invest in many women rather than one women and their children as this would mean them

The New York Times, “When Richer Weds Poorer” article reveals that while it may seem easy, “people who marry across class lines are also moving outside their comfort zones, marrying partners with a different level of wealth and education and a different ideals like manners, food, children, gift-giving and how to spend vacations.” A great example showing marriage can move your status is Ms. Woolner, who married a working class man she met while test driving a car. He was from a working class family and had very little education. She was the daughter of a doctor who grew up with many luxuries. After they married, Ms. Woolner’s new husband had moved into her home and had to adjust to the higher living status. Ms. Woolner notes that it is not only a class issue that they have merged and overcome but there is also a gender bias. "We've all been taught it's supposed to be the man who has the money and the status and the power." Ms. Wolner’s new husband gives another view point of Fussell’s

The studies I participated in were from FaceResearch.org. The description of this website was, ‘Participate in short, frequently updated experiments about the traits people find attractive in faces and voices, find out how you compare to others, and learn more about the psychology of attractiveness.’ I was very interested in this section in class, so I decided to do a few studies from this website. The first was one titled Facial Attractiveness, and I clicked on it because it had the most participants (over 77,000). In this experiment, participants were supposed to indicate which face was more attractive (and how much we prefer it) of the two shown. The participants could click on the following options: much more attractive, more attractive, somewhat more attractive, or slightly more attractive. There were abut forty sets of faces. They would show two female faces, one more feminized and one more masculinized. Then, they would show two males faces. In the end, the results were as follows: ‘On average, people preferred the more feminine women 80% of the time and the more feminine men 54% of the time. You preferred feminine women 100% of the time and feminine men 0% of the time.’ I also participated in the study What makes a face attractive? It was similar to the other study in which I was given two faces and had to choose which one was more attractive. The results were as follows: ‘On average, people had a 58% preference strength for the more feminine images. You had a 46%

Social class variations in U.S. family life starts with categories of people who share a common economic position in the unequal society in which they live in (Strong and Cohen 82). Classes indicate economic indicators such as wealth and income earned. These show what people have such as bank accounts, houses, stocks, and retirement plans, but eliminates their debt such as credit cards, loans, and mortgages. Social class is known to have structural and cultural dimensions. Structurally, social class shows our occupations that we depend on for earnings, the power it presents us with, and the opportunities we get to experience. Culturally, social class follows people’s beliefs, attitudes, values, and motivations that separate them from other classes. People are grouped together in classes because of their similar incomes, amounts of wealth, degrees of occupation status, and years of education. Social class is experienced differently by people throughout life.

find it odd to have a female breadwinner in the family, the social construct that holds them to this

In the article, “Negotiating Courtship: Reconciling Egalitarian Ideals with Traditional Gender Norms” by Ellan Lamont she writes about women’s behaviors and accounts reinforce gender differences of inequality. Courtship conventions remain the same even though women have greater earning power through higher education. Courtship conventions such as paying for dates, determining commitment and moving onto marriage is left up to the male. Women’s economic resources contradict the persisting gender norms that shape the behaviors and attitudes during courtship.

Social Roles: “People’s behavior is strongly influenced by their social roles” (Taylor 354). Wives play a role of a house wife. In the working field they are either nurses, receptionist, or elementary school teacher only because that is how they were brought up. The women are to be the care giver. Men, as husbands, are to be the main provider for the family. In the workforce they acquire a career that’s in the medicine, construction, and college teaching. The men are the one who is inferior to women in the workforce. For example, the man is the CEO and the women the

For instance, coming from a low-income family my house has a less décor as too a house who belongs to a high-income family. In addition, being from two different social classes can lead up to trouble integrating between each other’s families. Me and her would have different attitudes towards how we spend the money. Coming from two totally different social classes would mostly bring up conflicts relating to money. Furthermore, another characteristic I deem to be most important is physical appearance. To consider someone to be your mate you first need to find them attractive or good looking. When we first see someone we tend to look at their physical appearances and from that moment on you deiced in weather you seem interested in that particular person. Lastly, age would play a factor. This is because although some people do say age is just number to me it is not. Age matters to me because I would not date a female who is younger than two years of age or who is older than two years of age. For me two seems like a good number in age difference. There are some people who are in their forties or older dating someone who is twenty or vice

Who do we love? The phase that love is blind is common amongst society but in reality, love is often quite prejudiced. Sociological studies suggest people do not just fall in love with anyone, instead, we tend to fall in love with people who share our race, ethnicity, religion, age, and social class. According to the Guardian (2012), people are more likely than ever to marry into their own class, as a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research showed. Marrying across class lines could be challenging as it means moving outside their comfort zones, into the uncharted territory of partners with a different level of wealth and education (Lewin 2005).

Literature on the topic of attractiveness is very extensive. The human face is something that catches every ones attention and more over the scientists as well the psychologists are interested in analyzing the ability of humans to extract information of the others. Several factors and features are associated with attractiveness. Some examples include facial symmetry, skin color, facial traits, clear skin and health of facial skin. It is hypothesized that facial symmetry is an important factors in measuring physical attractiveness. Different features may be perceived as attractive by different people.

Proximity allows us to get to know a person more, for the exposure we had with them makes it less frightening to interact with them. Exposure increases attraction. However, when the initial interaction was unpleased, repeated exposure will not increase attention. Decrease on repeated exposure only happens when initial interaction was