CS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Human Face, Physical Attractiveness, Humphrey Bogart
21 Mar 2019
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It carries the bias of our current consumer-oriented culture: youthful heterosexual beauty is the ideal female beauty is objectified seen as a thing, object, not a human being. Stereotype: pre-existing cultural knowledge we acquire from peers, oversimplified ideas, a preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person and situation, strongly held beliefs-culturally and arbitrary constructed to trigger responses. The human body & physical attraction: body type, height, odour, hair. In canada and the us, the absence of underarm and leg hair is widely considered feminine and clean: attraction plays an important role in: Dating and marriage: dating is a short-term view versus marriage. In short-term relationships, people are often content with only physical attraction. Qualifications to research: problems of method, use still photographs in a lot of the studies, most research does not concern itself with subtle differences in attractiveness, which produces less straightforward responses in judges and are more difficult to.
