Jaime Hernandez
National University
The Power of Attraction and Intimate Relationships Defined
Webster’s dictionary describes attraction as “a force acting mutually between to particles of matter, tending to draw them together, and resisting their separation” (Merriam Webser , 2013). Some scientists and psychologists have attempted to understand attraction and predict it as if there was a clear science to attraction. Truth be told, attraction can be one, or many different pieces that are instrumental to the attractions that one feels toward another. Some attributes people require are conscience decisions or can even be requirements on a subliminal level. Some factors of attraction may include physical attractiveness, proximity and intimacy and intimate relationships.
Kassin, Fein and Markus describe physical attractiveness as a way of one being drawn in (Kassin, Fein, & Markus, 2008). There are five elements of attractiveness also known as the Golden Rule. These five factors include facial features, Voice, Kissing, Smell and Financial Stability. Sexual attraction can be directly influenced by human scents. For instance when a woman is ovulating the produce pheromones known as copulins. When a man smells a woman’s copulins a surge of testosterone is released. Interesting enough this increase of testosterone is actually repulsive in un-ovulating women. This is a raw example of one’s ability to attractiveness to the opposite sex on a level not controlled on a cognizant level. Secondly, voice tones and the tone one carries plays a huge role in finding the opposite sex more attractive. As women, their voice naturally raise in pitch during ovulation because of the increase of estrogen. Male subjects find this more attractive and on an unconscious level find women with higher pitches are more fertile. Often before we hear or smell someone we lay eyes on them. There has been a common