week 3

Question 1

universal facial features

Answer 1

symmetry and averageness (no abnomalities)

Question 2

why do we think average is good

Answer 2

bc of familiarity

they are easy to process

Question 3

why is we think symmetry is good

Answer 3

good genes, stable development, fighting off pathogens in the womb

symmetrical faces also have better physical and mental health

Question 4

infants prefernce to attarctive faces indicates that

Answer 4

attarctive isnt a socially constructed its innate

Question 5

universal personality features

Answer 5

kind, depdendable, mature, intelligent, emotionally stable

Question 6

can personality affect perceptions of physical attractiveness

Answer 6

yes

tina fey thing

Question 7

mate dollar task M vs F

Answer 7

men spend more on attarctiveness and women spend more on social level

Question 8

why r there dif mating stategies

Answer 8

bc they pass on their genes in dif ways

Question 9

parental investment theory

Answer 9

women invest more time then men and they want a helper and so they are choosier they need resources

men only need one fertile mate so theyre less choosy

Question 10

evidence for parental investment theory

Answer 10

sea horse is reversed

Question 11

women vs men ideal WHR

Answer 11

W=0.7
M=0.9

Question 12

women 0.7whr

Answer 12

fertility, carrying child to term, getting pregnant

Question 13

men sensitive to fertility cues

Answer 13

youth and physcial attarctiveness (younger women more fertile)

waist to hip ratio (0.7)

fertility is also longer hair and fuller lips

Question 14

women sensitive to cues of social status

Answer 14

older age and domiance bc more to invest in offspring

Question 15

sex differences M vs W

Answer 15

W- WHR 0.7, breasts

M- whr 0.9 (not too important), shoulder (protectors) , height (status, dominance)

Question 16

which culture is most likely to care aout the 0.7

Answer 16

traditional/less sexually egalitarian cultures

Question 17

blind men and whr

Answer 17

still true at 0.7 so its innate not socially learned

Question 18

challenges to evolutionary perspective (4)

Answer 18

1- some parts of attractiveness like weight vary across cultures

2- same sex attarction has same patters like whr (but no direct fertility)

3- assumption that women relied on partner for resources

4- does not replictae in speed dating (ppl only care abt who is the most physically attracttive)

Question 19

social role theory

Answer 19

dif biology leads to different role adoption

socialzation to encourage role consistent traits

male role often associated w statis and power

womens mosr direct route to access to high status resources was through male mates

Question 20

evidnce for social role theory (3)

Answer 20

1- sex differnces in preferjce for statis redued in more female empowered cultured

2- prefernce for goof providers decreased

3- imagining self in homemaker role increases prefernces for older mates who are good provders and vice versa

Question 21

do opposites attract

Answer 21

no we like ppl similar to us

like similar names

same goes for negative traits

Question 22

what matters more percived or actual similarity

Answer 22

percieved

Question 23

matching hypothesis

Answer 23

ppl pair up w others who are equally physically attractive

• some for friends

Question 24

when matching is minimized

Answer 24

when u know them for a long time

Question 25

who prefers which face

Answer 25

we like the face we see in mirror

others like wjat they see

Question 26

mere exposure attitudes

Answer 26

previous exposure will later show a preferences

Question 27

mere exposure in media

Answer 27

why instagram ads work so well

Question 28

women who attened a greater number of lectures were more or less liekly

Answer 28

more classes = more liekd

Question 29

will mere exposure worm if u dont initally like the person

Answer 29

no - need at least a neutral feeling

Question 30

Proximity: Westgate Housing Study

Answer 30

Married MIT students randomly assigned to one of 17
buildings in a housing complex isolated from the rest of the
city
š Virtually no one knows anyone in the complex beforehand
š Simple question: Who ends up liking whom?
š65% of the residents had at least one friend who lived in
their own building
šBut those living in the same building represented only 5%
of all residents

Question 31

How Does proximity Work

Answer 31

We have an increased opportunity to meet people who live
close to us.
2. We tend to like novel stimuli more after we have been
repeatedly exposed to them (mere exposure).

Question 32

Misattribution of Arousal

Answer 32

Capilano suspension bridge study
(Dutton & Aron, 1974)
š * sometimes called 2 factor theory of emotion
also the heartbeat thing

Question 33

Scarcity

Answer 33

Perceived scarcity
š“Closing time” study
šLocal bars at 9 pm, 10:30 pm and 12
am

does not work for pictures - only for physical

rate ppl of opposte sex higher the closer u r to cloding

š Culture and food
šRole of hunger: attractiveness before
and after leaving college dining hall
Maybe not (Jin et
al., 2020)

scare = desireable

Question 34

The Cheerleader Effect

Answer 34

ppl rated higher in groups than indivudally

Question 35

cheerleader effect works how

Answer 35

averagness

Question 36

perfernce for avg facial features works why

Answer 36

familiarity and similarity

Question 37

meere exposure effect works why

Answer 37

familarity

Question 38

attarctiveness matching why

Answer 38

similarity

Question 39

attractuvee ss mathing decreasubf w aquantaship works why

Answer 39

familiarity