Why Do Fools Fall in Love?
Copyright 2001 David A. Wheeler, Ph.D., PHR, CMT
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File: attraction.htm Attraction:
- Physical Appearance
- Short Term Relationships: Most attractive person
- More
attractive people are believed to be more capable at everything
- Long term relationships: Matching Hypothesis unless there
is a compensating factor (money, power, status, sex)
- Similarities
- Complementarity
- (Polarizing)
- Proximity
- Familiarity
- MHC Dissimilarity
- Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC)
- Like Blood Type but determines organ transplant rejection
- Involved in pheromone production
- If a person's sweat attracts you, you may be compatible
- MHC incompatiblity may be cause of miscarriages or inability to
conceive
- -Animal Talk by Tim Friend (2004)
-
Imago: a schema of your perfect partner (love at first sight)
Your Mother + Your Father (Harville Hendricks)
Yourself
All adults you have had contact with
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