How different between 'attraction' and 'attractiveness?

Attraction and Trust?

• I am a psychology student, and I'm researching the relationship between Attraction and Trust. Would you say people tend to distrust people who they find more attractive than the,themselves, and tend to trust people who they find more unattractive than themselves? How many times have you distrusted a hot girl or a hot guy? And how many times have you distrusted an unattractive or chubby person? Findings and Explanation: Did you know that there's a phenomenon called the halo effect? It means you attribute more positive qualities to people you find attractive, as opposed to the reverse halo effect: you attribute more negative qualities to people you find unattractive. In my personal experience this also reflects in trust, most people seem to agree, others don't see the connection, while some feel plainly offended. My findings tell me that attractive people tend to be more confident, so they are less intimidated by other attractive people, but they may still distrust them as they may see them as a threat to their own attractiveness. While less attractive or unattractive people tend to be intimidated by attractive people so their initial reaction is to distrust them (gender, and gender preference in subjects is not determinant). On the other hand, less attractive or unattractive people tend to make natural confidants since people see them as no threat and since they also seem to be less confident the initial reaction is to trust them because they appear harmless. Also, people tend to be more honest to less attractive or unattractive people since they don't feel the need to impress them, while the opposite phenomena occurs with attractive people.

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  You might find this interesting: 'Sexualized Women are Seen as Objects, Studies Find' 'Male Brain Sees Sexy Women as Non-Human' -Psychology today ".....Another study found that these (sexy) women are seen as less moral (sincere, trusting) and less emotionally warm (likable, warm). These findings are also consistent with a wide range of work showing that objectified women are perceived as less competent. Interestingly, research even finds that when men view sexualized pictures of women, they subsequently view a female experimenter as doing a worse job. In other words, men “carried over” their views of the sexualized women to another woman, who was not scantily dressed. And lastly, research shows that men and women view sexualized images (of both men and women) as lacking “mind,” which is basically a denial of thoughts and emotions. In this work, people even had less concern for the sexualized people’s pain, compared to when they were fully dressed. The picture truly is bleak when women (and in some cases men) are evaluated solely on their looks and/or sexualized." ~People usually think I'm attractive, and I have been told by friends (my first impression was that) i'm intimidating so I agree and relate to that statement about attractive people being intimidating. Before college, I had no clue people associated attractiveness with being intimidating and hoenstly, I had never been called intimidating before and didnt understand why people kept saying I was.