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What makes you so irresistibly compelling to one-another?
Every day, your mind creates thousands of judgments and decisions about other individuals around you; this occurs so many times that these judgments often go unnoticed. Whether you are crossing a street, tipping your pizza delivery guy, or opening a door for someone, your mind is constantly judging another's physical features. There are many theories that explain this occurrence. One of the more general theory is that all forms of intelligent creatures dating way back past the stone ages had some type of judgement towards another specimen. Species instinctively create judgments of one-another in order to either prevent harm to itself or to reproduce. Oftentimes, these decisions are based on the physical features of another animal in order to determine whether or not the specimen is right to make contact with. Likewise, humans also create judgments instinctively to determine possible interaction and reproduction with another. However in virtue of the previous theory, these sequence of events can be further explained psychologically as physical attraction. Physical attractiveness is an anomaly where judgments are created based on another's physical features like complexion, face, physique etc. . This phenomenon is seen in both genders and it appears throughout all ages in life from infants to the elderly. At the beginning of life, babies scan surrounding faces and gravitate towards the individuals who appear more attractive, just as the elderly do many years afterward. There are many methods to explain how Physical attraction occurs, the top two are methods are Halo effects and Snap judgments.

The Halo effect is a phenomenon that occurs when good characteristics standout over the bad characteristics. Cognitively, we rate people, based on impressions of observation or interaction, which influences our judgement about their qualities, instead of judging before we discover what it is to really know about them. For example, celebrities are seen as kind, charismatic superheroes' because that is what they portray to be, however, their true characteristics are often diminished and not recognized. A study done by researchers examined the effects and strength of the Halo effect in the field of physical attractiveness. Due to the halo effect, it is was previously thought that people are more likely to rate another individual on an "attractive" basis -based on favorable aspects like personality, features, and characteristics- over a person who is deemed as less attractive. This experiment consisted of volunteers who were presented with slides of different individuals who then had to rate the slides based on attractiveness and personality. The results of the study showed that sexiness, femininity/masculinity, and liking showed a strong relationship to attractiveness. The significance of this finding illustrates that the world's populations are very prone to making these instantaneous unconscious judgments of sexiness, femininity/masculinity, and liking for both female and male genders instead of personality or true characteristics of an individual. Therefore, further enhancing the theory that the Halo effect, is based from visual ques and not internal qualities.

The next explanation to why physical attraction occurs is Snap judgments. Just like the Halo effect, Snap judgments are also stimulated by visual ques of another person. For instance, imagine you were anxiously waiting outside a room, waiting for your name to be called in for an interview for that job that you always wanted. The main thoughts that are running through your mind are "how do I look?" or "am I sweating too much?" or "is my tie straight?". These thoughts are due to the fear of making a bad first impression to the interviewer. It takes only a few second for someone to make a bad impression about another person, an automatic judgement based from even the smallest of details. A study was created to further explain the phenomena of snap judgments produced by an interviewer during a interview session. In this experiment, the interviewer was given a blank graphing chart with a horizontal line in the middle. Before the subject came into the room for the interview, the interviewer charted his feelings; above the horizontal line was positive feelings whereas below the horizontal line was negative feelings. After the first plot was made, the subject was then allowed into the room; the interviewer then created another point on the chart at the exact moment when he realizes that his feelings change on a timely fashion. At the end of the study, the two plots on the chart created by the interviewer were analyzed, the time-lapsed between the shift in feelings illustrated not only the shifts of emotion but also the time it took from the moment the subject entered the room. This understanding of time and shift exhibits the notion that snap judgement are stimulated from visual observation of another person.

Halo effects and Snap judgments occur all the time, in situations other than celebrities and interviews, these judgement could be made when a child is picking teammates for a pick-up basketball games in the park, or also when a person like you is choosing an employee in a store to ask for help. The concept of physical attraction largely relies on visual stimulation of another in order to effectively determine the interpersonal relationship between persons.