Introduction:
We experience interpersonal attraction when we emote the feeling of to love or to like another person, it can be defined as the power of the emotion of like or love we feel towards someone. Interpersonal attraction is established from the human nature of needing to belong. Baumeister and Leary (1995, p.522) stated that the need to belong is a "strong desire to form and maintain enduring interpersonal attachments." Interpersonal attraction can be present between anyone such as family members or friends, although within this essay I will focus on interpersonal attraction with regard to romantic relationships and what draws two people together. I am asked to uncover whether it is the characteristic of how a certain person looks …show more content…
The physical attraction stereotype explains how the appearance of a particular person is able to alter the impression given of that person’s personality traits (Schneider, Gruman, & Coutts, 2005, p. 357). On the first time we see someone we judge them by their looks. We find less attractive people are more commonly viewed to have more negative qualities, while more attractive people are viewed as having more positive qualities, with no regards to what qualities the individuals actually have (Rohner & Rasmussen, 2012, p. 239). Therefore, based on first impressions a more attractive individual would be perceived better than a less attractive individual. The halo effect is a different way of explaining interpersonal attraction. It conveys the same idea as interpersonal attraction. It focuses on the idea that we think more attractive individuals possess more attractive personality traits such as caring or kindness . The face is one of the first features people judge attractiveness on. In regards to facial beauty symmetrical faces are tended to be found to be more attractive to both men and women in oppose to asymmetrical faces (Cunningham 1986). Humans have a tendency to judge a book by its cover, which in turn gives people who are viewed as more attractive a more positive judgement on their character and because of this are more likely to be approached by …show more content…
His theory revolves around the thought that we choose a spouse that we deem to be of equal attractiveness to ourselves. This is due to the social exchange theory, in which states that we are more attracted to and become romantically involved with individuals who have equal capability to benefit us. In oppose to this in 1966 Walster held a study in which the findings actually contrasted with those of the matching hypothesis. In this study using a "computer dance" participants were randomly pre-selected and went out on dates and afterwards they rated how attractive they found the other person to be. After half a year eighteen of the participants were questioned whether they had went on another date with the same individual. The results found that the women deemed thee most attractive went on a second date. This indicates that the men were more attracted to the most attractive women, without taking their own appearance into
We experience interpersonal attraction when we emote the feeling of to love or to like another person, it can be defined as the power of the emotion of like or love we feel towards someone. Interpersonal attraction is established from the human nature of needing to belong. Baumeister and Leary (1995, p.522) stated that the need to belong is a "strong desire to form and maintain enduring interpersonal attachments." Interpersonal attraction can be present between anyone such as family members or friends, although within this essay I will focus on interpersonal attraction with regard to romantic relationships and what draws two people together. I am asked to uncover whether it is the characteristic of how a certain person looks …show more content…
The physical attraction stereotype explains how the appearance of a particular person is able to alter the impression given of that person’s personality traits (Schneider, Gruman, & Coutts, 2005, p. 357). On the first time we see someone we judge them by their looks. We find less attractive people are more commonly viewed to have more negative qualities, while more attractive people are viewed as having more positive qualities, with no regards to what qualities the individuals actually have (Rohner & Rasmussen, 2012, p. 239). Therefore, based on first impressions a more attractive individual would be perceived better than a less attractive individual. The halo effect is a different way of explaining interpersonal attraction. It conveys the same idea as interpersonal attraction. It focuses on the idea that we think more attractive individuals possess more attractive personality traits such as caring or kindness . The face is one of the first features people judge attractiveness on. In regards to facial beauty symmetrical faces are tended to be found to be more attractive to both men and women in oppose to asymmetrical faces (Cunningham 1986). Humans have a tendency to judge a book by its cover, which in turn gives people who are viewed as more attractive a more positive judgement on their character and because of this are more likely to be approached by …show more content…
His theory revolves around the thought that we choose a spouse that we deem to be of equal attractiveness to ourselves. This is due to the social exchange theory, in which states that we are more attracted to and become romantically involved with individuals who have equal capability to benefit us. In oppose to this in 1966 Walster held a study in which the findings actually contrasted with those of the matching hypothesis. In this study using a "computer dance" participants were randomly pre-selected and went out on dates and afterwards they rated how attractive they found the other person to be. After half a year eighteen of the participants were questioned whether they had went on another date with the same individual. The results found that the women deemed thee most attractive went on a second date. This indicates that the men were more attracted to the most attractive women, without taking their own appearance into