PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Physical Attractiveness, Storge, Longitudinal Study
18 Dec 2016
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What compels us to become friends with a person? (initially: physical attraction; proximity, shared interests, interesting/mysterious) Male (heterosexual) participants shown female photo (attractive vs unattractive); measured participants expectation of phone call; then phone call; then post test measure of likability. Record this conversation and play only the female side of conversation to other people who have not seen any photos. Results: men shown attractive photos had more positive expectations and unattractive as not so positive expectations. Actual conversation was awkward is negative expectations, even when people who had not seen photo heard the convo (self fulfilling prophecy) Familiarity: averages (took bunch of photos of women from different countries and averaged the faces for each countries) average faces more attractive, proximity. Similarity: people will choose partners that are on the same level of physical attractiveness as themselves. Reciprocity: we like people who we think likes us (if someone has a crush on you, you start liking them)
