Love at First Sight?: Individual Differences and the Psychology of Initial Romantic Attraction

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 747-772

  Swami, Viren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association between Big Five personality traits and partner preferences; Attraction as a dynamic process philosophy of esthetics, plagued by what Zangwill (2000) terms an "aesthetic realism"; Beauty ideals and practices arising due to pressures that women face in male dominated societies; Beauty standards, reducing women to status of sex objects causing them to feel that inadequate, forcing them into practices that leave them feeling inauthentic; Gabriel Garc a M rquez's novel Love in the time of cholera, common and powerful premises in western literature; Importance of thinness preference for thinness in a potential partner, associated with hostile and sexist attitudes toward women; Individual differences approach potential to further our understanding of romantic relationship initiation; Love at first sight, individual differences and psychology of initial romantic attraction; Personality, operationalized by using Big Five taxonomy associations between personality of observer, and phenomenon of initial attraction; Pro feminist attitudes, associated with perception a wider range of body sizes as being physically attractive

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EID: 84855757535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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