Attraction Flashcards
What does a fatal attraction describe?
A situation in which individuals are attracted to a partner because of characteristics hey find pleasing initially but later come to dislike. I
What term describes the liking of things or people who are associated with ourselves in superficial ways?
Implicit egotism
Which hypothesis claims that we are initially attracted to everybody and come to dislike others who turn out to be attitudinally dissimilar?
Repulsion hypothesis
Which hypothesis proposes that people are attracted to others with similar attitudes?
Similarity-attraction hypothesis
What theory explains attraction in terms of people’s tendency to form balanced triads composed of person P, the other O, and an issue X, and their respective relationships?
Balance theory
What term is used to describe peoples desire for feedback that is consistent with their self conceptions, even when they are negative?
Self-verification
Undifferentiated physiological arousal whose source is ambiguous is attributed to the presence of an attractive person which results in liking, or attraction to that person; is part of what theoretical model?
Misattribution of arousal
A process through which people come to like those they are more exposed to.
Mere exposure
A situation in which individuals are attracted to a partner because of characteristics they find pleasing initially but later come to dislike.
Fatal attraction
Which bias describes considering the male experience as the norm, while the female experience is ignored or considered abnormal.
Androcentric bias
Term describing an organisms desire to pass it’s genes on to the next generation through reproduction or to ensure the genetic survival of kin.
Inclusive fitness
Term describing the mental representation of categories, such a human faces, around their modal features.
Prototypes
Term describing the different reproductive goals of men and women.
Parental investment
Term describing an organisms ability to resist parasitic infections; it is conveyed by facial symmetry.
Heterozygosity
The theoretical claim that sex differences in physical attractiveness are best understood as stemming from the division of labour in industrialized societies.
Sociocultural view
Term describing our proclivity to attribute a host of positive qualities to physically attractive people.
“What is beautiful is good” stereotype
Which perceptual phenomena explains why our perceptions of an average looking person can be adversely affected if we had prior exposure to an extremely attractive person.
Contrast effect
Which theoretical statement explains why partners in established relationships are generally well-matched in terms of their physical attractiveness.
Matching hypothesis
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
No. Universal beauty=symmetry
Ideal hip to waist ratio.
0.7
Two of women ideal facial types:
Baby faced and maturity
According to evolutionary theory long legs indicate what?
Fertility
Men prefer spouses ____ years ___ while women prefer spouses ____ years ____ than them.
Men prefer spouses 2.7 years younger and women prefer spouses 3.4 years older.
What three needs are deemed fundamental to our mental and physical health?
1) need for affiliation
2) need for intimacy
3) need to belong
What provides humans with the motivation to seek the company of others, especially in times of fear and uncertainty.
Need for affiliation
Why provides humans with the motivation to seek relationships of depth with one person.
Need for intimacy
What leads humans to desire to form relationships of breadth and depth.
Need to belong
Gazing situations indicate _______ or ______.
Love or heighten aggression
If someone likes you, you will most likely like them too. Which principle does this work on?
Reciprocity
Birds of a feather or opposites attract?
Birds of a feather.
