Attraction

Question 1

When does a man’s hip to waist ratio affect women’s evaluations of him?

Answer 1

When he has a high salary.

Question 2

Who smells better? Symmetrical/attractive people or asymmetrical/less attractive people?

Answer 2

Symmetrical and attractive people.

Question 3

Do people prefer parters at their own attractiveness level?

Answer 3

No, but they often end up with them.

Question 4

Do we look for different attributes in friends vs. romantic partners?

Answer 4

No.

Question 5

What two types of environment affect selective attention?

Answer 5

Closed field vs. open field.

Question 6

How is attention determined in a closed field situation?

Answer 6

By social pressures.

Question 7

How is attention determined in an open field situation?

Answer 7

By novelty and importance.

Question 8

How does novelty draw our attention?

Answer 8

We are more likely to notice unfamiliar people or events.

Question 9

How does importance draw our attention?

Answer 9

We pay attention to those that we believe have the power to influence our outcomes or to meet specific needs.

Question 10

What 5 broad factors are people attracted to?

Answer 10

Attractive, rewarding, appropriate, similar, and responsive.

Question 11

How do rewards affect our attractions?

Answer 11

We are attracted to those who offer rewards. The more direct the benefit, the stronger the attraction.

Question 12

What are some universal traits that are desired in a marriage partner? (6)

Answer 12

Emotionally stable, warm, kind, expressive, smart, and attractive.

Question 13

What are social allergens?

Answer 13

Attributes that people seek to avoid.

Question 14

What are three examples of social allergens?

Answer 14

Consistently violating social norms, being oversexed, and uncouth habits.

Question 15

What is the number one most powerful and alluring attribute?

Answer 15

Physical attractiveness.

Question 16

What study did Elaine Hatfield/Walster and colleagues do to support the importance of attractiveness?

Answer 16

The computer dance study.

Question 17

What are two examples of negative stereotypes associated with attractiveness?

Answer 17

Being conceded or promiscuous.

Question 18

What features make women attractive?

Answer 18

When baby features such as big eyes, small noses, and small chins are paired with mature features such as high defined cheek bones and large smiles.

Question 19

Do people mostly agree or disagree over who is attractive?

Answer 19

Agree.

Question 20

What features make men attractive?

Answer 20

Strong brow and jaw lines.

Question 21

What waist to hip ratio is the most attractive to men?

Answer 21

0.7

Question 22

What waist to hip ratio is most attractive to women?

Answer 22

0.9

Question 23

Why is the 0.7 ratio preferable to men?

Answer 23

It makes fertilization easier and is indicative of overall health.

Question 24

What shoulder to hip ratio is most attractive to women?

Answer 24

1.2

Question 25

How much more do tall men get paid per inch, on average?

Answer 25

$800 per year.

Question 26

Which sex is a potential partner’s smell more important to?

Answer 26

Women.

Question 27

How was the better smell of attractive people measured?

Answer 27

The t-shirt study. Slept in, smelled by strangers.

Question 28

What advantages do attractive people have over unattractive people (evolutionarily)?

Answer 28

More mobile sperm, better physical and mental health, higher fertility.

Question 29

What region of the world most emphasizes physical attractiveness?

Answer 29

Equatorial regions where parasites and pathogens can endanger health.

Question 30

Under what circumstances are slender women less attractive than heavy women?

Answer 30

When food supplies are unreliable and people are hungry.

Question 31

How does self-monitoring correlate with dating preferences?

Answer 31

Men who are high self-monitors are more interested in having good-looking dates.

Question 32

When is similarity in physical attractiveness most important?

Answer 32

At the beginning of a relationship.

Question 33

What are the four sources that Baxter determined teach people the “shoulds” and “should nots” of relating?

Answer 33

Unsolicited advice from friends, observing interpersonal behaviour and outcomes, gossiping with friends, and receiving direct sanctioning for their own behaviour from network members?

Question 34

What did Hynie et al.’s study of adult children of Chinese immigrant find?

Answer 34

A strong positive correlation between participants mate preferences and traditional cultural values, the connection with their family, orientation toward family norms, and importance their own parents placed on the same attribute.

Question 35

What two studies were conducted that support the mere exposure effect?

Answer 35

The yearbook study where pictures that popped up more than others were rated higher and the classroom experiment where women that showed up more got higher ratings.

Question 36

What are 5 commodities that people used to attract more desirable partners?

Answer 36

Fame, wealth, health, talent, and looks.

Question 37

How do spouses perceive their similarity levels?

Answer 37

They overestimate them. People are married to illusory images of their partners that portray them as similar soulmates.

Question 38

What are three similarities that seem to matter?

Answer 38

Religion, housework and gender roles, and attitudes.

Question 39

Why does responsiveness matter?

Answer 39

Because it is indicative of a future relationship with a person.

Question 40

What is affiliation determined by?

Answer 40

Accessibility and receptivity.

Question 41

How does accessibility affect affiliation?

Answer 41

People make their selections of partners from a field of persons available for interaction.

Question 42

What are people’s fields of availables influenced by?

Answer 42

Physical proximity and social proximity.

Question 43

What did Nahemow & Lawton discover in the Dyckman Houses Study?

Answer 43

Residential proximity played a critical role in section of friends, and facilitated the beginnings of those friendships.

Question 44

What did Ebbesen et al. discover about environmental spoiling?

Answer 44

The probability of being chosen as a friend increased as the physical proximity between people decreased. However, the association between physical proximity and enmity was even stronger.

Question 45

What two mechanisms promote attraction through physical proximity?

Answer 45

Civil courtesy norms couples with expectations of future interaction as well as similarity (or perception of it).

Question 46

How does social proximity influence affiliation?

Answer 46

Decreased communicative distance increases the chances of initial contact.

Question 47

What is pluralistic ignorance?

Answer 47

A phenomenon in which people oversee others behaving similarly to themselves but attribute their own behaviour and that of others to different underlying causes.

Question 48

What study did Vorauer and Ratner conduct on receptiveness?

Answer 48

The party study. Potential partner and explanations for failure to act. 74% were scared of rejection, 71% said the other party was not interested.

Question 49

Where does the best acceptance come from?

Answer 49

Those who are choosy and don’t offer acceptance to everyone.

Question 50

What is Heider’s balance theory?

Answer 50

People desire consistency among their thoughts, feelings, and social relationships. When two people like mach other, their feelings fit together well and can be said to be “balanced.”