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Attractiveness

Elizabeth VanSumeren

an ignite-style talk for Dr. Erchull’s Social Psychology course
(Spring 2021)

Students were asked to “give psychology away” by educating an audience of their choice about an idea from social psychology that the group would benefit from understanding

References

Frederick, D. A., Garcia, J. R., Davison, T. E., & McCabe, M. P. (n.d.). Physical Attractiveness. Physical Attractiveness – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/physical-attractiveness.

Lane, L. D. and C. (2021, January 15). Principles of Social Psychology. https://opentext.wsu.edu/social-psychology/chapter/module-12-attraction/.

Perry, S. J. (1998). A study of physical appearance and level of attraction to the opposite sex . Modern Psychological Studies. https://scholar.utc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=mps.

    Miriam Liss
    27 Apr 2021
    1:39pm

    Very well done! I think you geared this to your audience really well and I think your target audience would get really beneficial information from this video1 You mentioned romantic attraction versus friendship attraction. Is there a different dimension for sexual attraction or is that a more limited subcategory of sexual attraction?

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    Dr. Steckler
    28 Apr 2021
    2:37pm

    Interesting presentation. Why did you choose 16 YO as your audience – what are you hoping they will gain from this information, or are you just trying to inform them? You seem to suggest that the most important component of a relationship is attractiveness; I question whether this is accurate and what the role is of attractiveness over time. Who is to judge “attractiveness”? Isn’t this judgement in the eye of the beholder? I would also question your assumption about the role and typicality of jealousy. Isn’t this feeling less than desirable?

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    Taliah Starckey
    1 May 2021
    11:44am

    Good presentation – Can you explain why you chose 16 year olds as your audience? and Is there any data to follow the variables for attractiveness?

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    Alesi Veale
    2 May 2021
    2:51pm

    Great job! I found your presentation very fascinating and learn so much from listening to it. One thing you did really well was throughly explaining what your topic was and providing research.

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    Nicole Altenberg
    7 May 2021
    7:53pm

    This was super interesting! Thank you for sharing! Do you know how the data was measured from the 16 year old audience?

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