Running Head: EYE COLOR AND ITS EFFECTS ON ATTRACTIVENESS 1
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Eye Color and Its Effects on Attractiveness
Bryce L. J. Lovric
Psychology 335 Research Methods
Abstract
To explore if eye color affects attractiveness, eighteen students who are currently taking Psychology classes at Sacramento City College were shown 10 head shot photographs, 5 males and 5 females whose eye color were changed to blue and brown. Each student rated the photographs on a scale of 1 being not desirable to 5 being the participant is really attracted to them. The hypothesis was that those in the first group will find the photographs more attractive than those in the second group. Results from this experiment can have implications in understanding the factors that affect attractiveness and other future research.
Eye Color and Its Effects on Attractiveness
People say that being attractive and attracted to someone is very subjective and that there are many factors that affect how attracted we become to someone such as hair color, skin color, height, weight, the shape of the face, lips, eye color and many more.
Human eye
English: "Indian Eye." Author: Arctice.
English: A photo of my iris. Uploading it so that ...Some people might find people with blue eyes more attractive than people with brown eyes and vice versa.
Spending most of my teenage years in the Philippines, I have observed that many Filipinos were drawn to like and find those people who had different eye colors attractive, especially those who had blue eyes. They saw different eye colors other than brown very attractive that people sometimes resort to wearing color contact lenses to change their own eye color to become more attractive themselves.
Studies have been conducted to find out whether eye color affected attractiveness. In a study conducted in Germany, experimenters found no correlation between the colors of the iris and rated...