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| theories of attraction: consensus across people |
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| "hyper" features and averaging |
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| exaggerated features such as large eyes, plump lips, narrow nose and contracted jaw: facial symmetry |
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| pronounced brow, sunken eyes, brows close to eyes: facial symmetry |
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| conveys health and good reproductive potential |
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| extremely exaggerated features |
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| mix of physiological and sociological features |
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| averaging theory of attractiveness |
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| better explanation; faces better correspond with average, not unusual in any particular ways |
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| composite photos of men and women of 4,8,16,32 |
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| get progressively more attractive; better match with a prototypical face and found across cultures |
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| infant studies (2-6 months) |
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| can discriminate between less and more attractive faces |
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| reason for average as preferred |
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| evolutionary stabilizing pressures; fitness due to genetic diversity, better gene pool |
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| cognitive averaging theory |
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| infants already have a prototype for "face" could be inborn |
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| routine activities, proximity, familiarity, similarity |
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| proximity theory (Festinger 1950) |
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graduate student housing, who do you see socially? 41% next door neighbors, 22% 2 doors down, 10% end of hallway
minimal group condition, dissonance reduction |
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| based on demographic characteristics such as race and ethnicity, even holds true away from parents |
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| similar SES, higher education, younger, don't live near parents |
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| explanations for homogamy |
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pressure (societal, family)
cultural differences
in-group biases
churches tend to segregate and encourage segregation
own preferences, family norms, opportunity for contact |
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closed environment, looked at racial patterns in hook-ups, dates, relationships...patterns of homogamy...
even higher than predicted...across all groups, showed homogamy |
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| comparison levels, alternatives...when leaving relationships, a sense of what you could get in addition to construction of problems |
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