The Attraction Doctor

Jeremy Nicholson, who is also known as “The Attraction Doctor,” writes a blog about relationships in https://www.psychologytoday.com. In one of his blog posts, he focused on the following question asked by many people. Is your personality making you more or less attractive? All teenagers focus on their physical appearance when they want other people to recognize them. They worry about having a nice and thin body, good looks, shapely muscles and attractive hair. However, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” People are mostly attracted by physical appearance but personality also plays an important role in influencing the people you communicate with. Furthermore, according to a recent research, not only “who you are on the inside” counts but your personality also changes the way people see you. What does that mean? According to your personality traits, you could be more or less attractive to the people around you. How? Here are the details of the research:

Swami and his colleagues studied the influence of personality on perceptions of physical attractiveness in 2010. They asked the male participants to rate the attractiveness of different females by looking at their photographs. The pictures included skinny models and obese women as well. Some participant groups received positive personality information about the women in the pictures while others received negative personality information or no information at all. After all these questions, the results found that all groups agreed on the body shape that was “most” attractive. However, participants who were given positive personality information found a significantly wider range of body sizes physically attractive. On the other hand, participants who were given negative personality information found a significantly narrower range of body sizes attractive than the control group. Of course, this is not the only study to support this.

So… What does this mean? If you want to be physically attractive, you should try to be a good, kind person and develop a good personality. Try to keep the study about “personality influence” in mind and keep calm. If your personality is unattractive, your physical appearance will seem the same in the eyes of others. Communicate with the people you meet in every area of your life in a positive way and they will see the true beauty in you.