Factors Of Attractiveness Flashcards
What are the four factors for affecting attractiveness
Facial symmetry
Responsiveness
Similarity
Familiarity
What is facial symmetry
Rather than being unusual people who are viewed by others as physically attractive actually have very typical average features and the two sides of their face tends to be highly symmetrical
What is responsiveness
We are more likely to want to form a relationship with people who are especially responsive to our needs
What is similarity
How alike people are contrary to the popular notion that opposites attract similarity has a positive effect on social relationships and we tend to be attracted to people who are like ourselves in personality, ethnicity, interests etc this can include appearance too
What is familiarity
In terms of emotions we tend to react more positively to familiar stimuli so if a persons face is familiar they will be mire appealing to us