Sexually Selective Cognition: Beauty Captures the Mind of the Beholder.

Maner, Jon K.; Kenrick, Douglas T.; Becker, David V.; Delton, Andrew W.; Hofer, Brian; Wilbur, Christopher J.; Neuberg, Steven L.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.85.6.1107

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“…Attractive people are thought to draw attention (Maner et al, 2003), and attractiveness has been found to predict high social status in some groups (Anderson, John, Keltner, & Kring, 2001). The present study design may provide a suitable context for testing the effects of attractiveness on attention in dynamic contexts, particularly as there is evidence that attractiveness inferred from watching dynamic video might prove to be different from image-based, ''physical" attractiveness (Riggio, Widamen, Tucker, & Salinas, 1991).…”

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Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: Effects of social status and speaking

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a b s t r a c tHuman visual attention operates in a context that is complex, social and dynamic. To explore this, we recorded people taking part in a group decision-making task and then showed video clips of these situations to new participants while tracking their eye movements. Observers spent the majority of time looking at the people in the videos, and in particular at their eyes and faces. The social status of the people in the clips had been rated by their peers in the group task, and this status hierarchy strongly predicted where eyetracker participants looked: high-status individuals were gazed at much more often, and for longer, than low-status individuals, even over short, 20-s videos. Fixation was temporally coupled to the person who was talking at any one time, but this did not account for the effect of social status on attention. These results are consistent with a gaze system that is attuned to the presence of other individuals, to their social status within a group, and to the information most useful for social interaction.

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“…Indeed, both men and women have been shown to look longer at pictures of attractive preferred-sex faces vs. unattractive preferred-sex faces (Maner et al, 2003;Shimojo, Simion, Shimojo, & Scheier, 2003), and gaze longer into the eyes of an attractive person as opposed to an unattractive person while conversing with them (Van Straaten, Holland, Finkenauer, Hollenstein, & Engels, 2010), possibly because this activates reward-related systems in the brain (Kampe, Frith, Dolan, & Frith, 2001). Additionally, some studies have shown that even individuals who were committed to their relationships were unable to avoid attending to attractive alternatives at early stages of attentional processing (Maner, Gailliot, & DeWall, 2007;Maner, Gailliot, & Miller, 2009).…”

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Relationship-specific identification and spontaneous relationship maintenance processes.

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Attractive alternative partners pose a relational threat to people in romantic relationships. Given that people are often limited in their time and energy, having the capacity to effortlessly respond to such relational threats is extremely useful. In 4 studies, we explored how people's identity in terms of their romantic relationship—their relationship-specific identity—affects their relationship-protective behaviors. We predicted that once a relationship becomes a part of one's sense of self, relationship maintenance responses are exhibited in a relatively fluid, spontaneous manner. In Study 1, we assessed the convergent and divergent validity of relationship-specific identification, demonstrating how it is associated with other relationship constructs. In Study 2, we found that less identified participants mentioned their relationship less than those high in relationship-specific identification, but only when interacting with an attractive member of their preferred sex. In Study 3, using a dot-probe visual cuing task, we found that when primed with an attractive member of their preferred sex, those low in relationship-specific identification gazed longer at attractive preferred-sex others compared to those high in relationship-specific identification. In Study 4, we found that relationship-specific identification was associated with relationship survival 1–3 years after the initial assessment. The present results demonstrate that relationship-specific identification predicts relatively spontaneous, pro-relationship responses in the face of relational threat.

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“…Much evidence indicates that physical attractiveness often plays a major role in romantic relationships (e.g., Feingold, 1990Feingold, , 1992Shackelford, 2001;Simpson et al, 1990), and so we might expect people to direct their attention selectively to individuals who are physically attractive; this tendency should be exaggerated among those perceivers currently interested in romance. We explored this general idea in a series of five experiments, focusing specifically on several alternative hypotheses derived from evolutionary considerations (Maner et al, 2003).…”

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From Evolved Motives to Everyday Mentation: Evolution, Goals, and Cognition

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introductionWalking across a crowding shopping mall, you may see a group of people who vary in their race, gender, attractiveness, clothing style, and demeanor. A similarly complex array of social stimuli confronts us at conferences, airports, farmer's markets, and college campuses. Rarely do we attend equally to all individuals in such complex social environments or to all characteristics of any given individual. Rather, we selectively direct our attention toward a smaller subset of individuals and characteristics. This selective direction of attention often occurs automatically, without conscious intent, and can have important consequences for subsequent thoughts and actions.Who do we attend to, think about, and later remember? And how are the answers to this question linked to our goals at the moment? We recently embarked on a program of research to explore the processes that influence the selective and automatic direction of perceptual and cognitive resources. In this chapter, we present a conceptual framework that begins to articulate the role that fundamental social goals play in governing these processes. We focus, in particular, on the ways in which self-protection and mating goals selectively facilitate attention toward people who have characteristics relevant to those goals. Integrating theory and research on selective attention processes, the influence of goals on social cognition and behavior, and ecological theories of motivation and social cognition, our

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Sexually Selective Cognition: Beauty Captures the Mind of the Beholder.

Cited by 281 publications

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Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: Effects of social status and speaking

Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: Effects of social status and speaking

Relationship-specific identification and spontaneous relationship maintenance processes.

From Evolved Motives to Everyday Mentation: Evolution, Goals, and Cognition

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