Attractive

outside,” but in our society this is not true at all. Attractive people are the faces of businesses, actors and actresses, most individuals that we look up to in our modern society. Why is this? Well in Chapter 6 of, “Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction,” it is stated that our attractiveness does in fact play a major role in how we are perceived by others, and what others think of us. “Numerous studies reveal that physically attractive people are perceived to exceed unattractive people…

matter on how someone looks on the outside because beauty is on the inside”, or some version of that, but in our society it’s not true. I always had beliefs that being attractive gets you places and gives you opportunities in life, but I didn’t truly realize this until I read Daniel Akst’s, “What Meets The Eye”. When I think of attractive people, I imagine celebrities, all-star athletes, and leaders or “poster children” of huge, well known companies. All of these people have two things in…

with universal beauty, and interestingly, why people are considered more attractive over others. The Golden Ratio is a mathematical number that is a determinant factor of why some people are considered more good-looking than others. Although the accuracy of the Golden Ratio is constantly and understandably questioned, it does offer up a respectable amount of evidence as to why some individuals are immediately labeled attractive over others. The Golden Ratio should be considered accurate to…

Effect of Crime and Attractiveness on Sentence Length Some people are simply blessed with good genes and are born attractive. There are times when this tends to be beneficial, and when it comes to prison sentencing after a crime, that fact may remain true. In this experiment we look at exactly this kind of situation. This becomes important for judges and other high up officials to understand that their thoughts might be swayed by attractiveness when making sentencing decisions. Sigall and…

Makhijani, & Longo (1991) found two general types of input that appear most important when considering how people learn their beliefs about what is associated with good looks; A direct observation of attractive and unattractive people in their social environment and exposure to cultural representation of attractive and unattractive people. Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, & Longo go on to say that the core of physical attractiveness is sociability, popularity, and similar attributes and has little…

conditions, which can be seen in Table 2. Between the two levels for religion, Sunni Islam (M = 4.34) was rated as more attractive than Methodist Christianity (M = 4.18), which did not support the initial hypothesis that Christianity would be deemed more attractive than Islam. Our hypothesis concerning tattoos held that the presence of tattoos would be rated relatively more attractive than the absence of tattoos. On the contrary, the average rating of attractiveness for the profiles possessing…

groups like criminals, soldiers, or those with diseases, and showed them to his colleagues. They all concluded that the composite faces were more attractive than the originals. Another study done on the same aspect was done in the 90s that asked volunteers to rate attractiveness of 60 women, then of their composite face. They rated the face as more attractive than the others. The researcher then averaged the highest rated 15 and found it was rated higher, and a version of that face with…

being physically attractive,” “the qualities in a person or a thing that give pleasure to the senses or the mind” or “a beautiful person or thing, especially a beautiful woman.” These definitions, themselves, already differ greatly with how they can be applied to people or things. Being physically attractive or having qualities that people like can be very different, sometimes in complete opposition to each other. In a way, it explains that a person doesn’t always have to look attractive to be…

Shields Hierarchical Encoding Makes Individuals in A Group Seem More Attractive In a recent study, psychologists Drew Walker and Edward Vul wanted to test the validity of the hypothesized “cheerleader effect”, a phenomena arguing that a person is likely to be perceived more attractive while in a group as opposed to when he or she is seen alone. The “cheerleader effect” proposes that individual faces will seem more attractive in a group because the individual face will appear more similar to…

in many, if not nearly all, aspects of life. It has been discovered that being psychically attractive influences people to judge the person in a positive light. Some researchers believe that external appearances act as an indicator about the quality of a person’s genes; unattractive people must have bad or unfavorable genes compared to an attractive person (Talamas, Mavor,…