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Physical attractiveness describes the degree to which a person’s physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. Personality traits are typically defined as descriptions of people in terms of their relatively stable patterns of behaviors, thoughts and emotions. People’s physical attractiveness and personality influences others’ perceptions of them in different ways, and also affects their important life domains, including their career, intimate relationships and health.
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Physical attractiveness depicts the degree to which a person’s physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. Accordingly, physical attractiveness is much less about physical features of the targets, but more about the perceptual process of the perceivers. Indeed, physical attractiveness is largely determined by a person’s unique thoughts about the world, which is...
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Liu, J. (2019). Personality and Physical Attractiveness. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_715-1
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