physical attractiveness - relationships

Question 1

physical attractiveness

Answer 1

how appealing someone looks has had a central role in evolutionary accounts of relationships

Question 2

Dion 1972

Answer 2

found physically attractive people are consistently rated as kind, strong, sociable and successful
leads to self fulfilling prophecy of behaving positively towards attractive people

Question 3

matching hypothesis

Answer 3

Walster and Falster 1969
individuals assess their own social desirability from the view of others, when initiating a romantic relationship individuals make a realistic choice

Question 4

realistic choices

Answer 4

take into account the individuals ideal and the likelihood of their acceptance and desirable available alternatives

Question 5

support for matching hypothesis

Answer 5

Murstein 1972 asked dating couples to rate themselves in terms of physical attractiveness and asked independent judges to rate them
found that real pairs were more similar than random pairs

Question 6

Walster 1966 TO BE COMPLETED

Answer 6

test for matching hypothesis- The computer dance

• advertised for new students at US uni 177 males 170 females randomly selected from those that bought tickets
• when they collected tickets 4 students covertly rated participants on physical attractiveness
• completed questionnaire to assess their characteristics and used to allocate their ideal partner for dance
• pairing random

Question 7

research contradicting matching hypothesis

Answer 7

Taylor 2011
studied the activity logs of a popular online dating site for the choices people made for actual dates, online daters sought meetings with potential partners who were physically more attractive than them

Question 8

individuals differences

Answer 8

not everyone seem to attach much importance to physical attractiveness
Towhey 1979 participants asked to rate individual based on their photograph, participants who scored high were more influenced by physical attractiveness