Physical attractiveness

• What did Shackelford and Larsen find are more attractive?

  Symmetrical faces
• Who found symmetrical faces are more attractive?

  Shackleford and Larsen
• Why did Shackleford and Larsen suggest symmetrical faces are more attractive?

  Signal of genetic fitness
• What are neotenous features?

  Widely separated and large eyes, delicate chin, small nose
• Why are people attracted to neotenous faces?

  Triggers protective instinct
• What is a neotenous face also known as?

  Baby face
• What is the physical attractiveness stereotype?

  Preconceived ideas about personality traits attractive people must have
• Dion

  "What is beautiful is good"
• What did Dion find attractive people are consistently rated as?

  Kind, strong and sociable
• Who found attractive people are consistently rated as kind, strong and sociable?

  Dion
• What is the halo effect?

  One distinguishing feature tends to have a disproportionate influence on our judgments of other attributes
• Who proposed the matching hypothesis?

  Walster and Walster
• What did Walster and Walster propose?

  Matching hypothesis
• What does Walster and Walster's matching hypothesis suggest?

  We look for partners similar to ourselves in terms of physical attractiveness
• Who proposed 'The Computer Dance' to test the matching hypothesis?

  Walster
• What did Walster propose to test the matching hypothesis?

  The computer dance