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Date Posted: 09:09:46 04/23/05 Sat
Sizing Up That 'Look of Love' " - F.I.M.H. postings..
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" Sizing Up That 'Look of Love' "
By E.J. Mundell/ HealthDay Reporter
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( Psychologists study the 'look of love' )
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When a woman walks into a crowded room, what her eyes do
in the first few seconds may determine how attractive
she is to any man meeting her gaze.
If she turns her eyes deliberately toward a particular man,
he immediately rates her as more likeable and physically
attractive, new research shows. If she glances at him but
then turns her eyes away, that same man will rate her as
considerably less sexy.
"Our impressions of others are influenced by these simple,
nonverbal clues - and we are not objective in our assessments,"
explained study author Malia Mason, a graduate psychology
student at Dartmouth University.
That could mean that a man rates a woman as less attractive
when she averts her gaze because he's feeling rejected, or,
on the other hand, that he takes her disinterest in him as
reflective of negative personality traits he assumes she must
possess.
While the study couldn't answer that question, Mason said,
"We do know that gaze is a very potent attentional cue. In
fact, there's evidence that when someone looks at us,
it's physiologically arousing, and there are these brain
regions that get more engaged."
For meetings where sexual interest isn't an issue, gaze can
simply make you focus more on the person and what he
might be saying or doing. And in situations where romance
is a possibility, it makes the mind race and the heart beat
a bit faster.
"The clinical psychology literature shows that the No. 1 thing
you can do to establish a relationship is simply look at the
other person, especially when listening to them," explained
Beverly Palmer, a professor of psychology at California State
University, Dominguez Hills, and a noted expert in nonverbal
communication.
"What researchers have usually studied is just whether
you're gazing at a person or not. But the problem is that
the interpretation of that gaze -- according to how long
the gaze is - can relate either to interest or hostility,"
she added.
The Dartmouth study, published in a recent issue of
Psychological Science, may help fill in that research gap
In the study, Mason and her colleagues had 43 college
undergrads ( 24 women, 19 men ) sit before a computer
screen and view a series of faces of fashion models
scanned from magazines. The images were
computer-enhanced, however, so that they appeared
to slowly turn their gaze toward, or away from,
the viewer.
In the first experiment, the researchers asked the
participants to rate the personal "likeability" of each
of the women pictured.
They found that both male and female viewers rated women
who averted their gaze as less likeable than women who
turned their attention toward the viewer.
Gender differences emerged in a second experiment,
however. In that exercise, the same participants were
asked to rate the physical attractiveness of the models
on their screens as they turned toward or away from
them.
In this experiment - focusing more on sexual interest -
male participants consistently rated models who averted
their gaze as less beautiful, while models who turned
their eyes toward them got much higher marks.
"But for female participants, ratings of attractiveness
[ for the models ] wasn't moderated by direction of
gaze," Mason said.
The study does have its critics. Dr. Doe Lang,
a New York-based psychologist and author of
The New Secrets of Charisma, said it's futile to
focus on one piece of nonverbal communication
to the exclusion of all others.
"There are many, many possible subtleties that aren't
attempted at analysis or codification here," she said.
"Are the eyebrows raised? Are the shoulders raised?
What's the rest of the body doing? Just to have the
head turn and the gaze is far too simplistic."
And Palmer said it'd be interesting to know what
happens when women view males in a similar context.
"Because we know, for instance, that in heterosexual
relationships physical attractiveness, as a quality, is
rated much more importantly by men than it is by
women," she said.
She also agreed that the findings don't say much about
why people are judged more harshly when their eyes
communicate disinterest.
"You could say 'Oh, she doesn't like me because I'm not
good-looking, I'm too short,' etc," Palmer said. This type
of reaction is called an internal attribution, with the viewer
suspecting that the averted gaze reflects badly on the
viewer.
Or he could make an external attribution, which disparages
the other person, instead. In this "sour grapes" scenario,
the man interprets the woman's averted gaze to mean that
"'she is not a person I'd want to get to know, because she's
hostile,'" Palmer said.
What is sure is that gaze matters. According to Palmer,
the most charming individuals use eye contact to their
advantage - as she found out in a recent face-to-face
with former President Bill Clinton.
"He was speaking here in L.A., and I had an opportunity to
meet him," she said. "He makes immediate eye contact,
and sustains it correctly while he is listening."
According to Palmer, that means that Clinton quickly sets
his gaze on you, averting it only occasionally and at proper
intervals, because holding a gaze too long can signal
hostility.
The result? "He's actually 100 percent more charismatic
than he comes across in any kind of media," she said.
"You feel like you're the most important thing to him at
that particular moment."
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