A PSY 450T Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unrequited Love, Naphazoline, Zygomatic Bone
Document Summary
Higher attraction receive more attention and interactions. No profile picture is better than a bad profile picture. Attraction is the most important part at the start of a relationship. The only things that matter are the level of attraction in regard to interest to continue dating. Men who are taller get paid more. Men are more driven by physical attraction than women. Men are high in self-monitoring (pay attention to how people see you) People of high self-monitoring are more adaptive and flexible to regard to who they"re with and where they are. People of low in self-monitoring believe in i am who i am stick to same friends. High monitoring want more attractive friends (judged by their friends) Evolution: we want to find partners who will provide us with good offspring (signs of good health, fertility, youth, symmetry) Status is a factor in wanting to be surrounded and associated with attractive people.
