Male and Female Nonverbal Indicators in Physical Attraction

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Male and Female Nonverbal Indicators in Physical Attraction

Abstract

This study explores the reasons and origins behind nonverbal indicators in respect to male and female physical attraction. In addition to myself, a male and female subject were interviewed to see what nonverbal indicators we found to be attractive in men and women as well as what we thought the opposite sex found to be attractive in both sexes. Results suggested that despite social and cultural influences on physical attractiveness, both men and women primarily take a bio-evolutionary approach when looking for nonverbal indicators. Both subjects looked for nonverbal indicators that promote fertility in women and nonverbal indicators that promote the ability to gather resources and support a family in men.

Male and Female Nonverbal Indicators in Physical Attraction

The purpose of this study was to collect and compile nonverbal indicators of physical attraction in both males and females, and potentially explain their origins beyond the realms of stereotype, media, culture and society. According to the data, it would seem that most, if not all, nonverbal indicators for physical attraction can be explained from a bio-evolutionary perspective. It can be seen that different nonverbal indicators are more preferred between the two sexes. These indicators are generally perceived as attractive in men and women with respects to what some consider male and female “evolutionary roles” and our need to produce offspring to continue our species’ existence.

According to many anthropologists and socio-biologists, males and females have different roles when it comes to furthering our species. It is argued that pregnant women or women who are nursing a ...

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...upport her along with the child.

Overall, many nonverbal indicators in physical attraction seem to have explanations that go beyond mere stereotypical, cultural, and social reasons. Rather it can be seen that many indicators can be explained from a bio-evolutionary perspective. Even though we all claim to have different preferences when looking for partners, our primal needs to further our species inevitably draw our attentions to similar features that promote procreation and the ability to sustain families. As previously mentioned, advances in civilization and technology have eliminated the need to fulfill the same physical requirements that our ancestors once demanded, but it still stands to reason that many of our early ancestors preferences in physical traits still lay as a prehistoric groundwork for our modern physical preferences to be built upon.

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