Also, regardless of how attractive people themselves are, they seem to judge others’ attractiveness in similar ways, supporting the notion that we have largely universal, culturally independent standards of beauty (e.g. symmetric faces).
These results indicate that people’s own attractiveness does not affect their judgment of others’ attractiveness.
KEYPOINT: People of different physical attractiveness levels might instead vary the importance they place on different desirable qualities in their dates.
KEYPOINT: Lee and colleagues conducted a follow-up speed-dating study in which more attractive people placed more weight on physical attractiveness in selecting their dates, while less attractive people placed more weight on other qualities (e.g. sense of humor). Need to cite this story in your essay, paper, or report? Use one of the following formats:
Adapted from Association for Psychological Science (2008, February 14). Beauty Bias: Can People Love The One They Are Compatible With?ScienceDaily.
Retrieved from http://www.sciencedaily.com; /releases/2008/02/080211094943.htm
Although changing facial characteristics is a tough thing to do, there are other factors in overall attractiveness (weight for example) that are controllable.
And how those factors add up can make a big
difference over the course of a short life (in the case of children) or a long life (once adulthood is reached all the way to what is left behind for the family.
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