1. Unit 11 Essential Question: How do we relate to one another?
Attraction and Love

2. What is Beautiful is Good.
The importance of physical attractiveness is not limited to dating relationships. Examples:
College students judged an essay written by an attractive author to be of higher quality than one by an unattractive author.
Simulated juries conferred less guilt and punishment on physically attractive defendants than on unattractive defendants.

3. The physical attractiveness stereotype (what is beautiful is good) extends to adults’ evaluation of children.
In one study, over 400 5th grade teachers evaluated attractive children as having greater intelligence and scholastic potential than unattractive children.

4. Parents may implicitly teach the physical attractiveness stereotype through the bedtime stories.
Physical deformities and chronic illness often symbolize inner defects in children’s stories.
Ex.) Captain Hook has a prosthetic hand, Cinderella’s mean stepsisters were ugly, Hansel and Gretel were victims of an arthritic witch. Pinocchio’s nose grew when his integrity slipped.
Is it possible that more recent heroes (Shrek) will serve to weaken the physical attractiveness stereotype? Can you think of other examples?

5. The Pairing Game
You will receive a note card with a number on it. You will hold your note card to your forehead in a way that you cannot see it, but others can.
DO NOT LOOK AT YOUR OWN NUMBER AT ANY TIME NOR TELL ANYONE ELSE WHAT THEIR NUMBER IS!!!
Your task is to pair off with another student. You will receive a reward. The higher your partner’s number, the better the reward.

6. The offer to form a pair is made by extending your hand to another person, as if to offer a handshake. The other person can choose to accept or reject your offer.
If your offer is accepted, then stand together with your partner at the edge of the room.
If your offer is rejected, then continue looking until you have found a pair.

7. How did you arrive at picking your partner?
Did you approach the highest numbers first?
Did you keep lowering your standards until someone would accept you? Did you “settle”?
Did you figure out you had a low number and seek someone else with a low number?

8. The pairing game demonstrated:
The matching phenomenon: – the well-established finding that men and women tend to choose as partners those who are a “good match” in attractiveness and other traits.