Meeting Your Match: How Attractiveness Similarity Affects Approach Behavior in Mixed-Sex Dyads

Meeting your match: how attractiveness similarity affects approach behavior in mixed-sex dyads.

This experimental study investigated approach behavior toward opposite-sex others of similar versus dissimilar physical attractiveness. Furthermore, it tested the moderating effects of sex. Single participants interacted with confederates of high and low attractiveness. Observers rated their behavior in terms of relational investment (i.e., behavioral efforts related to the improvement of inter...

Gazing behavior during mixed-sex interactions: sex and attractiveness effects.

We investigated to what extent the length of people's gazes during conversations with opposite-sex persons is affected by the physical attractiveness of the partner. Single participants (N = 115) conversed for 5 min with confederates who were rated either as low or high on physical attractiveness. From a mating strategy perspective, we hypothesized that men's increased dating desire towards hig...

How ethylene signalling affects female attractiveness

One woman’s behavior affects the attractiveness of others

Previous research has shown that viewing photos of highly attractive women adversely affects men’s evaluations of more typical women and of their own romantic partners. We could not replicate these results, but induced similar effects by showing participants an innocuous mock video interview of an opposite-sex stranger. Mated men’s ratings of their partners and unattached men’s ratings of other...

How to solve problems in your practice with a new meeting approach.

F inding the time, energy and enthusiasm to hold regular, productive meetings may seem like an insurmountable task for your practice. If so, you’re not alone. Our research group has explored the common challenges of hundreds of family medicine practices over the last 15 years, and in our most recent study of 60 practices we found that most do not meet consistently and that, when they do, it’s r...