PSY 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Epilepsy, Longitudinal Study
15 Oct 2016
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Personal connections- tend to rate someone more physically attractive after grow to like them. Kenrick et al. (1989)- men perused playboy and penthouse. Rated regular women to be less attractive even their wives. Thornton and moore (1993)- the same idea with self-ratings. Manipulation: 24 same sex model photos vs. none. Who are we attracted to: familiarity, physically attractiveness, people who are similar to us. Definition: we are attracted to one another on the basis of similar attributes . We match on attractiveness in dating and marriage. We don"t like mismatched couples, rate them. But we stay in our league to avoid rejection. Attractiveness matching also in same sex friendship. Who are we attracted to: familiarity , physically attractive , people who are similar to us , people who like us . Curtis & miller (1986: pairs in lab, talked then separated, manipulation: (cid:281)revealed(cid:282) to one either liked or disliked, reunited.
