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Psychologists have, for a long time, been interested in attempting to define what people consider to be attractive and to discovering why this is so.
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Psychologists have, for a long time, been interested in attempting to define what people consider to be attractive and to discovering why this is so. This branch of social psychology investigates the way in which we form and modify our impressions and feelings towards others. Four main factors are consistently identified as playing a major role in interpersonal attraction: proximity, physical attractiveness, similarity, and reciprocity. Proximity refers to the degree of geographic, residential, and other forms of spatial closeness. Proximity plays a very large part in who develop relationships with who, for the simple reason that it increases the chance of coming into contact with a person. It is hard to be attracted to someone with whom you never come into contact - though not impossible with the technologically advanced communication tools of today. Additionally, proximity makes it easier to interact with another person. Even with today's new communication tools, it...
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