PSY424H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Long Hair, Heart Rate Monitor, Ovulation
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Part ii: perceiver & contextual factors: contextual = situational factors. Physical attractiveness tends to outweigh many other factors. Attraction doesn"t change too much across the globe. Symmetry: more symmetrical faces are seen as more attractive, twin with more symmetrical face is seen as more attractive. Averageness: faces that don"t have any particular deformity or abnormality, how they often study this: combine several faces together to create an average face. This average/composite face tends to be considered more attractive than any of the individual faces: usually the more average the faces, the more symmetrical as well. There is a universal agreement on what is seen as attractive: cross culture consistency, can see this in the miss universe pageant. Preferences are evident in infants 14 hours after birth (slater et al. 1998: look at the duration of time babies look at photographs of different people, babies look at photos of people who adults consider as beautiful for longer.
