Physical attractiveness

psychology, physical attractiveness is defined as the degree to which a person’s physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. The term often implies sexual attractiveness or desirability, but can also be distinct from either. Although proximity, being close to one’s potential partner geographically, and similarity, sharing personal characteristics such as social status and religion, are vitally important, evidence suggests that initially, physical attractiveness is the…

equally attractive as us; But for a person that someone finds too attractive, a term associated with this is described as dating “out of your league” (Sprecher, S. & Hatfield, E. 2009). Matching Hypothesis also supports that similarity in physical attractiveness leads towards the greater likelihood of getting and staying married with one’s spouse. Also, the married couples who describe their marriage to be quite successful or happy over time, tend to eventually start looking like each other…

essay critically evaluated studies associated with the variables influencing interpersonal attraction. These variables consisted of physical attraction, humour, attitude similarity and familiarity. Four studies regarding physical attraction and looking at the subareas of men and women, photographs and person to person attraction irrefutably support the argument that physical attraction has the strongest influence upon attraction. Balancing this, humour and attitude similarity were shown to have…

What is beauty and how does it relate to one’s perception of physical appearance of the opposite sex? Depending on the eye of the beholder, the essence of beauty can be characterized by age, gender, color and body type. The concept of beauty is often altered, misconstrued and shadowed through mass media. It is something that is endlessly strived for, but is suitable to change. Beauty can be defined as the aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses, mind, and or…

Based on Hogg (2001), “If you like someone you are more likely to agree with them and comply with requests, suggestions and order.” (p189) People tend to look at the physical appearance of other people as a basis of whether they are going to follow them or not. Nowadays, physical appearance have an impact on people’s decision making. According to Desrumaux, De Bosscher and Leoni (2009), “Attractive people are percieved as having more socially desirable features (Dion et al.) in addition to…

Student’s Life Impressionable students are very impressionable and often go through phases where they feel extreme bouts of self-loathing and inadequacy compared to other students. These feelings of self-loathing and inadequacy often results from their physical appearances or their inability to contribute fully to sports that they participate in, and often lead to a lack of confidence. Confidence and other attributes can be acquired through exercise, but in order to accomplish their goals they…

unattractive by others. Betty lands a job as an assistant at a fashion magazine called “Mode”. Though her physical appearance is often mocked and humiliated, Betty gains her colleague’s respect and eventually finds her way into the fashion industry through her hard work and positive attitude. Meanwhile, other women who work in Mode tend to be careful about the impressions others have on their physical appearance, thus building their body images according to beauty standards. Though the first…

team at the University of Bristol conducted an experiment to see if there was even a relationship at all. “The better an American football player, the more attractive he is, concludes a team led by Justin Park ... Park’s team had women rate the attractiveness of National Football League (NFL) quarterbacks: all were elite players, but the best were rated as more desirable”(Callaway). Being a better quarterback doesn’t make you a more attractive person, but the idea that a potential mate is very…

Beauty can be described in many ways. Each person will have their perception about beauty and not everyone will have same judgement about beauty. For example, some people might have their favourite artists because they think that the artists are beautiful and cute but not everyone will agree about that. There is no standard measurement about beauty. It cannot be described by a method or principle such as formula in Mathematics (Armstrong, J., 2004). However, youthfulness, good grooming,…

however, it is hard to define someone’s physical appearance “beautiful” or not. Just like what Shakespeare had written in his book Love's Labour's Lost, “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye”, concept of beauty of physical appearance is considered as subjective, however, it is in fact biologically based. This essay will show that by having both common and diverse traits among different cultures and countries around the world, concept of beauty of physical appearance is biologically…