The Advantages Of Attractiveness

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

In another study, Langlois and Roggaman (1990) took photos of faces and morphed them together to produce composite images made up of 4, 8, 16 or 32 images. Participants rated faces as increasingly attractive the more faces that went into each image; this applied to both male and female faces. The more faces in an image, the more symmetrical they become, it seems that moving a facial image closer to the average increases its perceived attractiveness. It is likely that symmetry equates to fitness and “good genes”, these people are less likely to have been affected by harmful mutation. People with attractive faces are preferred because of the benefits of passing on these attractive characteristics to offspring. Little & Hancock propose that humans have evolved to be attracted to symmetrical faces because they indicate “averageness”, which equates to genetic health. Grammar and Thornhill (1994) found that females are attracted to males with masculine characteristics, for example: large jaw and prominent cheekbones. These features arise as a result of testosterone, which is also a handicap because it suppresses the immune system. Therefore, showing only “healthy” individuals can afford to produce these traits- advertising a strong immune system. Cartwright (2000) supported this, finding men prefer photographs of women with symmetrical faces and vice versa.

This article argues that physical attractiveness is a gateway for a healthy relationship. Singles, of both sex, recognizes the importance of physical attractiveness, especially online. Only when the standard is meet would they investigate further into the personality. It also argues that excessive attractiveness is unnecessary, and people prefers “averagely” attractive partner. The author is a dating & mating psychologist, has deep study in relationships. I will use this article as a major point to support my thesis statement.

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%

Previous researchers have concentrated on the effect of smiling on physical attractiveness. Reis, et al., (2010) conducted a research by using 15 males and 15 females neutral and smiling photos of each subject that served as a stimulus to 50 females and 50 males college students. Participants rated each photograph on 20 traits adjectives. An analysis of variance showed that people rated smiling profiles as more favorable than non-smiling profiles. Moreover,

In the youth and teenage years, the human body starts to undergo changes that affect the way they think and how they feel about the opposite sex. In these teenage years, people tend to have a very difficult time resisting the temptation of beauty. Throughout history, young people have been unable to resist the temptation

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.”

The main goal in conducting the experiment of how attractiveness would vary based off of western and non-western faces was to see if race would make a difference in how a class of western dominant students perceived attractiveness. We hypothesized that since our participants were western dominant, the western faces would be rated higher than those of the non-western faces (consistent with Burke, Nolan, Hayward, Russell & Sulikowski, 2013; Todorov, 2012). The critical question that we would be trying to answer was whether or not race would matter in determining how attractive an individual is perceived to be. We went with the hypothesis of the western faces being voted more attractive was because in previous studies race was linked to how one would vote attractiveness of another individual. In addition, we also believed that since the participants of the experiment were primarily

It reinforces our understanding of how we mentally judge/assess people using "snap" and "systematic" judgements. The article shows that goodlooking people are attracted to other goodlooking people most likely because they subconsiously trust them and feel like they are virtuous people based on their looks because of the social stereotype and perceiver expectation that reinforce that thinking. On the other hand, the article and the experiments reinforce our understanding that when two people are friends for a relatively long time, they move onto "systematic" judgements that allow them to make more in-depth and more accurate evaluation of each other. They do so by observing the behaviour and understanding the motives, thoughts and feelings of

these domains load onto 2 primary factors: avolition-apathy and diminished expressiveness. Primary negative symptoms are thought to be etiologically related to the core pathophysiology of schizophrenia” (Velligan 1). Diminished expressiveness is what she has displayed. Not only that, but she denied her father’s death, insisted that he was still alive, and refused to give up his body. She eventually “broke down” and let them bury him. The townspeople thought nothing of it though because that considered that to be a normal response. “We did not say she was crazy then” (Faulkner 483). This foreshadowing insinuates that the townspeople will think she is crazy soon enough.

This study consisted of one-thousand and thirty-six individuals; sixty-nine percent were male and thirty-one percent were female. The study lasted throughout fifteen different weeknights and was conducted was by automatically considering anyone over the age of tenty-one, who paid for a drink from a certain bartender between a certain time bracket. A female undergraduate psychology student was employed as a bartender and used in this experiment. She was 5'6" 1/2, 115 pounds, with dark blonde hair, and no makeup. She was rated on a scale from one to seven according to her physical attractiveness by seventy-six general psychology students. Scoring a 3.45 on the scale deemed her as unattractive to most. Her along with three other bartenders walked around to take orders every Friday and

Varied the physical attractiveness of a criminal defendant (attractive, unattractive, or no information) and the nature of the crime (attractiveness-related or attractiveness-unrelated) in a factorial design. After reading 1 of the case accounts, 120 undergraduates sentenced the defendant to a term of imprisonment. An interaction was predicted: When the crime was unrelated to attractiveness (burglary), Ss would assign more lenient sentences to the attractive defendant than to the unattractive defendant; when the offense was attractiveness-related (swindle), the attractive defendant would receive harsher treatment. Results confirm the predictions, thereby supporting a cognitive explanation for the relationship between the physical attractiveness

Experiment 2 was conducted to further examine the same predictions from Experiment 1 employing the more appropriate design suited with the nature of food sharing; target-specific willingness was consistently signaled via constant acts of sharing over time. The newly adopted willingness manipulation seemed to successfully convey a high level of target-specific willingness to surpass the threshold in the partner choice mechanisms. The results supported most of the five key predictions and the percentages of variance in attractiveness explained by willingness and ability increased from Experiment 1. Plus, in contrast to Experiment 1, the interaction between willingness and ability in men’s mate choice was not observed, probably due to the sufficient strength of willingness cues in Experiment 2.

The Halo Effect is the cognitive bias that generalizes that if an individual has one outstanding favorable character trait, the rest of that individual’s trait will be favorable. Specific to physical attractiveness, this is known as the “Attractiveness Halo.” Attractiveness plays an important role in determining social interactions. In fact, the physical attractiveness of an individual is a vital social cue utilized by others to evaluate other aspects of that individual’s abilities (Kenealy, Frude, & Shaw, 2001). Because of the attractiveness halo, attractive applicants trying to enter the workforce tend to

Overall people perceived as beautiful have more job opportunities as well as a higher chance for advancement in their carriers. A study was conducted by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke on the topic of the relationship between attractiveness of professors and the perceived quality of their teaching. What the study found out was a strong relationship between the two – “results indicated that as hotness ratings increased, so did ratings on overall quality, clarity, and helpfulness. Additionally, further analysis indicated that the greater the percentage of hotness ratings to overall ratings, the more likely that students rated the professors favorably.” Moreover research shows that attractive people perform better when interviewed. An interesting fact is