I can't help but love the theories involving romance. The sexiest theories to me are generally the ones that are literally sexy. Maybe my mind is just in the gutter all the time, but at the end of the day, I'm totally okay with that. I'm a 22 year old girl with the mentality of a 12 year old boy and research to back perverted nature. Also, I'm going to be annoying and a bit conceited in this post. Please forgive me.
That being said, my favorite theories are as follows:
1) Excitation transfer: The idea that arousal triggered by one stimulus can be transferred to a second stimulus. Not only is this fascinating, but as a woman, it only increases my ability to manipulate men. That sounds super skanky, and it's not meant to. If I'm in the mood for a good evening and Mike isn't feeling it so much, I can get him all excited with a scary movie or really good coffee and BAM, I get my way.
2) Matching hypothesis: This is the hypothesis that claims we pair with people of similar attractiveness. I'm sorry if I'm a cocky bitch, but I date male models. Hopefully that says something good about me.
3) What is beautiful is good: I love this theory, especially the second half. I feel like I don't need to explain this in too much detail because the explanation is in the title. People believe what is beautiful is good in all other respects. I'm going to being annoying again, but I generally get treated really nicely because I'm a cute, blonde girl. As in, especially with men, I can get away with almost everything I want when I put on a little mascara (which is never in this class). My managers love me, I have a significant amount of friends, if I have a flat tire, I can always get help, and I even have a professor pretty wrapped around my finger (that sounds more like an SU confession, but it's really true). All that aside, I really do try not to be an uber-dick.
4) False-consensus effect: States that people overestimate the degree to which other's agree with them. I love this theory because I'm manipulative (in a harmless sense, of course), but if I want to know about someone's habits, I can use the false-consensus effect to estimate the degree they favor something and act accordingly. This could be really beneficial as a salesperson or just a general gossip queen, and at Southwestern, who isn't the latter...
5) Self-monitoring: I was fascinated by this concept because it's the idea that on a continuum, people can be either high or low self-monitors. High self-monitors are people who adapt or conform to their social situations. They're generally very likable and have several groups of friends, but considered fake whereas low self-monitors are said to be more genuine with one core group of friends. This theory put me at odds for awhile because I wasn't quite sure where I stood. People always tell me they like me because I'm the same dipshit no matter where I go, but I do have a lot of friends and I play quite a few roles. So what does that make me? Where do I stand? I still don't really know.
There you go. There are my five for right now. They might change in a week, but I feel like that's just how life goes. Our interests are dependent on our life situations and right now I'm constantly flooded by my relationship, getting ahead after college, and the person I would like to be.
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