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nonverbal chap2
physical appearance
| term | definition | |
|---|---|---|
| appearance obsession | excessive attention to our own appearance | |
| artifacts | accessories used to adorn our bodies and clothing | jewlery, eyeglasses, hats, body piercing, tatoos |
| attractiveness | the degree to which we perceive another person as someone with whom we would want to associate | |
| cerebrotonic psychological type | tense, awkward, meticulous, tactful, and detached | |
| homophily | refers to similarity between people | |
| image fixation (IF) | a long-term, fixated view that a person has about her or his image or body | |
| personal body concept | the perception you have of how attractive your body is, and what you perceive to be the attributes of your body. | |
| physical attractiveness | the degree to which we perceive another person as attractive because of her or his physical attributes | |
| social attractiveness | the degree to which we perceive another person as someone with whom we would like to socialize | |
| somatotonic psychological type | confident, energetic, dominant, enterprising and hot-tempered | |
| somatotyping | a method used to categorize individuals into one of three major body types: endomorphic, mesomorphic, and ectomorphic. | |
| task attractiveness | the degree to which we perceive another person as someone with whom we would like to work or conduct business or have as a coworker or teammate. | |
| viscerotonic psychological type | slow, sociable, emotional, forgiving, and relaxed | |
| somatotypes | belief that body type corresponds to general temperment | endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph |
| endomorph | larger body types, pear, apple shapes | rounded oval, heavy, slow, emotional, sociable |
| mesomorph | athletic body type | muscular, hard/firm, confident, energetic, hot tempered |
| ectomorph | thin frail body type | fragile, flat, poorly muscled limbs, tense, awkward, tactful |
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