Attractiveness

A New Survey Sheds Light on 'The Seven Year Itch'

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Love-and-Relationships, Relationships, Attractiveness, Lips, Anti-Aging, Good Looks, Face, Seven Year Itch, Beauty, Attraction, Marriage, Looks, Facial Features, Body Image, Harris Interactive, Love, Communication, Women News

Caring for our looks is important not only in prolonging our physical and emotional health as we age, but in maintaining mutual attraction in our relationships.

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A Treatise on Being Called 'Cute'

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Women, Parenting, Fashion, Style, Marriage, Friendships, Relationships, Sexuality, Women News

I am often referred to as cute. Yes, even at my age, which is over 40. Isn't cute a word that is associated with babies or adorable pets or a new item of clothing?

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Is Love Really Blind? A New Survey Provides Answers

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Aging, Relationships, Lips, Gottman's Four Horsemen, Facial Appearance, Attraction, Skin, Marriage, Physical Attraction, Four Horsemen, Men Are From Mars - Women Are From Venus, Facial-Appearance, Aesthetics, Physical Features, Love, Eyes, Couples, Women News

Couples need to work on their emotional connection, but paying attention to you physical appearance may ensure that a relationship not only gets off to a good start, but remains strong.

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The Downside To Being Pretty

Forbes Woman | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Females in Business, Attractiveness, Advantages of Being Pretty, Women in Business, Career, Employment, Appearance, Women News

Would attaching a photograph to your resume help or hinder you on the job hunt? According to a new study, written up in the latest issue of The Eco...

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WATCH: What Appeals Most To Jon Hamm About Women

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Marlo Thomas, Attractiveness, Mondays With Marlo, Don Draper, Sexual Attraction, Jon Hamm, Jon Hamm's Attraction to Women, Video, Women News

Jon Hamm, star of the hit television show "Mad Men", talks about what female qualities he finds most attractive. var src_url="http://pshared.5min....

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Ovulation Affects Your Walk?

Babble | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Ovulation, Women's Sexuality, Pregnancy, Attractiveness, Walking, Sexuality, Sex, Attraction, Women News

A study published in the Elsevier Science Journal reveals that women have a sexier, slower gait when they're ovulating. The experiment involved wat...

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When It Comes To Attraction, Context Matters

Sam Sommers | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Physical Attraction, Love and Relationships, Love, Mate-Choice Copying, Facial Expressions, Context, Situations Matter, Human Nature, New Research, Male Attractiveness, Attractiveness Psychology, Physical Attractiveness, Emotional Intelligence, Female Attractiveness, Facial Attractiveness, Video, Healthy Living News

What makes someone attractive to you? Specific physical features? A particular personality type? A certain indefinable quality of character or depth of soul? All reasonable answers, sure, but there's another critical influence on who you're attracted to: context.

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WATCH: Is There A Formula For Beauty?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Pythagorus, Phi, Beauty, Attraction, Video, Facial Beauty, Stephen Marquardt, Talk Nerdy to Me, Golden Ratio, Symmetry, Cara Santa Maria, Sexual Attraction, Waist-to-Hip Ratio, Gaydar, Science News

What is beauty? This question has plagued philosophers and artists for millennia. And now, modern scientists think they're close to figuring it out.

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The Magic Spell of a Pretty Face

Sam Sommers | Posted 03.05.2012

We love to look at good-looking people. Hardly an earth-shattering conclusion, I know. But it's a well-documented one: Attractive people grab our attention.

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How To Enjoy -- Not Envy -- The Beauty Advantage

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Attractiveness, Aging, Beauty Bias, Survival of the Prettiest, Beauty, Fmris, Dr. Daniel Hamermesh, Dr. Helen Fisher, Dr. Arlene Landau, Aphrodite, Dr. Deborah Rhode, Dr. Nancy Etcoff, The Law of Attraction, Lookism, Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

The ugly truth? Beauty is unfair. But for we "everyday" men and women, what really matters is knowing that unique beauty -- experienced within, and with all its imperfections -- is the one that lasts a lifetime.

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Can You Spot An Attractive Man From Only Reading His Profile?

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Gender Difference Research, Rebecca Brand, Attractiveness, Gender Differences, Timothy Judge, Online Dating, Harvard Study, Online Dating Advice, Confidence, Happiness, Women News

It's always tempting when you're creating an online dating profile to use a photo that makes you seem ever-so-slightly hotter than you are in real lif...

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PHOTOS: Which American Cities Boast The Most Attractive Residents?

Travel + Leisure | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Attractiveness, Travel, Travel + Leisure, Charleston, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Miami, San Juan, San Diego, Beauty, Denver, Travel News

"The entire city of Denver has been indoctrinated by bizarre health and fitness regimes, such as kettlebell swinging," says British Web marketer Matthew Barker. "They're all completely bonkers -- but they look great."

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Money, Education and Love

Robin Quivers | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Women and Dating, Attractiveness, Education, Wealth, Money, Body Image, Dating, Dating Research, Sexual Attraction, Weight, Overweight Women, Attraction, Women News

We women have heard over and over again that for men, it's all about looks. But research shows the more educated you are, the more weight you can carry and still remain very attractive to the opposite sex.

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Are Pretty People Selfish?

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Style Studies, Attractiveness, Video, Beauty-Studies, Pretty People Are More Selfish, Beauty, Being Pretty, Pretty People, Women Studies, Women News

If your ideal partner is one who is "classically beautiful," you might want to watch out for a hidden selfish streak, a new study suggests. As the...

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Why Women Shouldn't Marry Attractive Men

Vicki Larson | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Attractiveness, Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Dr. Helen Fisher, Divorce, Pregnancy, Male-Poaching, Husband, Beauty, Hotties, Marriage, Infidelity, Wife, Masculinity, Ian Kerner, Humor, Divorce News

Watching the Anthony Weiner scandal unfold, it was hard not to wonder how a smart, accomplished, beautiful woman like Huma Abedin got herself involved...

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Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Black Women, Scott Barry Kaufman, Attractiveness, Representative Sample, Lse Spokesman, London School of Economics, Ethnicity, Add Health, Adolescents, Adulthood, Native American Women, Academic Freedom, Psychology Today, Race, Internal Investigation, Jelte Wicherts, Student Organization, African American Women, Firestorm, Controversial Conclusions, Evolutionary Psychology, Outrage, Empirical Findings, Satoshi Kanazawa, Psychologist, Style News

The low convergence of ratings finding suggests that in this very large and representative dataset, beauty is mostly in the eye of the beholder. What we are looking at here are simple ratings of attractiveness by interviewers whose tastes differ rather strongly.

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Beauty vs. Attractiveness: A Matter Of Semantics?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Attractiveness, Attractiveness vs. Beauty, Attractiveness Definition, Beauty vs. Attractiveness, Definition of Attractiveness, Beauty Definition, Beauty, Definition of Beauty, Healthy Living News

Practitioners who study beauty have a responsibility to alter our younger generation's view on what it means to be attractive. To do so, we have to keep physical beauty from being equated with the experience of attractiveness.

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What Makes A Man Attractive?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

We've joined together in previous posts to share what it really means for women to look and feel attractive. Now we can add new perspectives about men from real people like you.

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Women: Settling For Less May Mean More Stress

msnbc.com | Jennifer Viegas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attractiveness, Women Settling for Less, Stress Relationships, Women Settling, Relationships, Love and Relationships, Attraction Study, Stress Study, Relationship Stress, Home News

By Jennifer Viegas msnbc.com In socially monogamous species, from birds to humans, most individuals find partners. A large proportion of female...

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Is Beauty In The Eye Of The Beholder Or The Beholdee?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Attractiveness, Women, Baby Boomers, Aging, Comments, Beauty-Tips, Beauty, Blogging, Men Women Beauty, Relationships, Beautiful Women, Men Women, Beauty Attraction, Outer Beauty, Inner Beauty, Women Beauty, Men Beauty, Healthy Living News

Clearly there is a distinction between feeling attractive and looking attractive and between looking good to oneself as opposed to looking good to others.

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Just How Good Is Too Good Looking in the Workplace?

Cristen Conger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Attractiveness, Women, End of Men, Beauty Premium, Gender Wage Gap, Too Sexy for Work, Joan Holloway, Hanna Rosin, Women Discrimination, Debrahlee Lorenzana, Beauty, Workplace Attire, Beauty-Premium, Business News

Work performance, skills and education aside, I want to get down to brass tacks on what those hiring managers really had in mind when they admitted to punishing the pretty.

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Self-Aware With Self-Esteem: Week 12 of 'Mental Muscle' Boot Camp

Paul Katz | Posted 11.17.2011

I couldn't handle seeing affection between men without feeling extreme lack, jealousy and envy. All it did was make me want whatever they had right now! The only way I knew to get it, and fast, was through sex.

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How Attractiveness Affects Your Life (VIDEO)

Gearincs | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Attractiveness, Attractiveness Study, The Balanced Life, Psychology of Attractiveness, Cornell Study Attractiveness, 5min, Healthy Living News

Is life simply easier for attractive people? Dr. Sylvia Gearing shares the latest research on attractiveness and its effect on your work and your life...

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Jessica Simpson Knows the Price of Beauty

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Price of Beauty, Attractiveness, Eating Disorders, Self Esteem, Beauty, Jessica Simpson, Body Image, Thailand, Style News

Hopefully, Jessica Simpson's new show will help remind all of us to think carefully about how we define beauty and to reconsider how we "judge" attractiveness in ourselves and others.

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Mouth Health: Looking For A Better Love Life? It May Be Right Under Your Nose!

Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dental Care, Veneers, Cosmetic Dentistry, Health, Teeth, Dentist, Mouth, Attractiveness, Relationships, Dating, Physical Appearance, Healthy Living News

Here's the big thing about teeth: they might not be the first thing one notices, but they are probably one of the biggest deal-breakers when it comes to dating, romance, and sex.

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