PSYO 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Filippa Hamilton, Egotism, Physical Attractiveness
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Psychology 252 – January 22nd
• Beauty vs. Attraction
o What do they mean to you?
• Beautify
o Idealized vs. Reality? (just hair and make-up?)
• Why do we know the Kardashians?
o OJ Killed Niole; ‘oert Kardashia joied OJs defese hereas Chris Jeer as i
support of Nicole (split of Kardashians)
• How does beauty make you feel?
o Depends on your gender and sexual preference
▪ Media to make you feel bad to buy to look good
• Beautys ifluee is perasie
o Persoal eauty is a greater reoedatio tha ay letter of itrodutio Aristotle,
4th Century BC
o Beautiful people in our culture are viewed as stronger, smarter, happier, more socially
gifted, more confident, & more successful
o Collectivistic cultures se generosity, caring, and trustworthiness stemming from beauty
▪ What is beautiful is good
• Whatever your culture values are the attributes you give to beautiful
people
• What-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype belief that beautiful people possess desirable
characteristics as defined by your culture
• Teahers rate beautiful students as being more capable, intelligent, and more likely to succeed
o Preschool – PhD
o Beauty impacts the self-fulfilling prophecy
• Beautiful people get more lenient criminal sentences
o More life value on beautiful people – aka, if youre eautiful youre less likely to e
arrested, pulled over, serve long sentences, and even get the death penalty
• Assume beautiful people have better social skills
o Figure 4.13 Three Step Self-fulfilling Prophecy
• Snyder, Tanke, & Berscheid, 1977
o Men led to believe they are about to talk to an attractive or unattractive woman
o Have phone conversation with women who are unaware of the manipulation
o Attratie oe are rated y third-party judges to be more friendly, likeable and
socially gifted
• Is the what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype accurate?
o Good-looking people do have more friends, better social skills, more active sex life, and
earn more money occupations
o But beauty is not related to object measures of intelligence, personality, self-esteem, or
happiness
o AKA hae a ertai leg up the the rest of us, ut doest hage ho you feel aout
yourself
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o Attriutioal aiguity plays a role ie eause they like you, or eause youre
beautiful)
• Is Beauty an objective quality?
o Some argue that certain faces are inherently more attractive than others, ut…
▪ Babies prefer beautiful faces (regardless of race, age, etc.)
▪ Faces recognized as beautiful across cultures
• Symmetrical, Averageness, etc
• Is Beauty a subjective quality?
o People from different cultures enhance their beauty in very different ways (ie. Neck
rings, lip plates, piercing, face painting, tattoos, lipstick & blush (fertility), etc.)
o Ideal body type vary across cultures and racial groups
o Standards of beauty change over time
• Our obsession with Youth
o Whats so beautiful about youth?
▪ Perfect skin
▪ Large eyes
▪ Small nose
▪ Large mouth/lips
• Cost of elusive beauty
o Eating disorders used to be a predominately white-female-ester prole, its o a
global problem
o Women account for 90% of cosmetic surgery
o There are now more than twice as many plastic surgeons than pediatricians in Beverly
Hills
o Western beauty standards – media is now across the globe
• Typical Women
o The typial oe preseted y the fashio idustry is tall ad eighs
pounds
o BMI of 14, WHO cut-off for malnutrition 18.5
o North Aeria aerage or all oe: tall ad eigh ls
• Filippa vs Ralph Lauren
o Filippa Hailto: They fire e eause they said I as oereight ad I ouldt fit i
‘alph Laure lothes ayore
o Fillippa is ad 120lbs
Attraction
• Humans are social animals
o The need to belong is a basic human motive; that is, we are intrinsically motived to
belong
o Being ostracized is a form of social death (painful to humans in every sense)
▪ Causes physical pain
▪ From a group we value
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Document Summary
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