Attraction is the quality or feature that makes someone evoke interest or liking. Most people believe that physique tops the list of attractive qualities in the dating world. But, a survey and a study, there are other qualities men and women constantly search beyond beauty and charms. The definition of attractiveness has eluded science, as mankind keeps on explaining the meaning of beauty. Beauty is subjected and classified as physical, emotional, mental, and social aspects of the target.
in 1994, who claimed that there was not a significant challenge in cross-sex friendships in the form of sexual attraction on behalf of one or more parties. Research Methods There were two studies conducted based on the researchers’ hypothesis. First, they conducted semi-structured comprehensive interviews where the participants were asked various questions regarding their same-sex friendships and the obvious or latent sexual attractions from either party. The second study was aimed to find a “general quantitative recording of friendly relationships” (Halatsis & Christakis. 2009, p. 927).
Coon & Mitterer (2012) claim that we as humans are social animals and that we have internal needs and desires to be associated with other people. They claim that nobody wants to be alone voluntarily and that is why we gravitate towards people who display similar characteristics, physical attributes, situations or interest as us (Coon & Mitterer, 2012). This gravity pull is known as Interpersonal Attraction, which explains the social attraction we have to another person (Coon & Mitterer, 2012). Interpersonal attraction usually comprises of the following aspects: physical nearness, physical attractiveness, intelligence, similarity, self-disclosure and reciprocity (Coon & Mitterer, 2012). This notion however, is not classified the same as being
Social psychology is the study of individual’s behaviour on how they think, feel and react to social relationships and how they go about forming social relationships with either their parents, relatives, friends and colleagues (Coon & Mitterer, 2012). Coon and Mitterer (2012) defined interpersonal attraction as the attraction that occurs between people of which it may result into friendships and romantic relationships. Interpersonal attraction is based on how much we like or dislike others in our process of being attracted to each other (Ellen, Walster & Elaine, (1969). Interpersonal attraction theory aims at explaining some reasons why we get attracted to others, by that interpersonal attraction theory introduced factors such as: physical proximity, physical attractiveness, competence, similarity and self-disclosure which influence
The most interesting things that attract men against women Elegant woman is a few things go unnoticed men since the first quick glance and is generally common to all men the correct values Eyes: another thing that all men notice first about a woman is her eyes. You have ever wondered why it is said that the eyes are the windows to your soul? They can tell a lot about a person. It may be easy to tell if someone is lie to you or simply tell the truth. The eyes are real magnets that can attract and involve a stranger.
ROMANTIC ATTTRACTION. Romantic attraction is an emotion that drives people to want a romantic relationship with a person of interest. Romantic attraction is defined broadly, meaning that it is not based on sexual contact. People do feel romantic attraction even though they are not experiencing sexual attraction. They are variety of theories that explain how and why people are romantically attracted to one another.
student at the University of Nevada. Westfall pertains to the Physical Attractiveness Stereotype, used by psychologists to describe the assumption that good-looking
Review of literature The study of Politeness began to appear in the mid-1970s. Brown and Levinson's Politeness theory was influenced by Goffman's theory of face. The goal is to demonstrate language behavior through human interaction (Cheshire, 1991, p.25). Brown and Levinson (1978) wrote an article about how speakers work to "save face" through politeness to hearers (Gleason & Bernstein, 1993, p.286). In Politeness: Some Universal in Language Use, by Brown and Levinson, Grice's theory " The Cooperative Principle" was extended, by showing that people use politeness to modify their human behavior (Pinker, 2007, p.380).
It is also the fastest way to collect results. The questionnaire made possible to use statistic to analyze collected data. 4. Results The aim of three open questions was to see if men and women think stereotypically about both gender, and if they fit to their own stereotypical picture of their
Kindness, sensitivity, intelligence, modesty, and sociability are among those characteristics that are often attributed to physically attractive individuals in research studies. The beauty-is-good stereotype has been described by Dion, et al. as a set of beliefs and expectations that impart social advantages to attractive people. Since 1972, thousands of studies have provided evidence to support the existence and exercise of the beauty-is-good