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So we guess you like someone, which is either great or absolutely terrible. We have no clue.
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However, you might be wondering, what are the things that make us attracted to each other? What roles do our brains play?
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Well, lucky for you, us at Psych2Go got a list of nine comprehensive facts about attraction.
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First off, you've got to sound and smell like you're bigger and better than you are. You fake your smell and sound until you make it.
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Studies from the University of Wroclaw - thank you, Poland - held a study about the effects of one's sound and smells into attraction.
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You can tell a lot about someone from their voice, age, gender, weight, dominance, emotional state, and personality.
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So, if you sound more attractive, or even more confident, you'll come off that way.
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Then you have scent, where an androgen steroid, called androstadienone, comes into play.
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This steroid has an odorless chemical compound which people can smell on each other, which naturally leads to attraction.
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This actually occurs in body odor.
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Deodorant still recommended.
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Secondly, womens' attraction changes throughout menstrual cycle.
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According to several studies, women are attracted to different things depending on where they are in their menstrual cycles.
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For example, when they're fertile, women like more masculine features, and vice versa when a woman is not ovulating.
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Thirdly, men don't value intelligence as much as women,
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which I think is pretty self-explanatory, but the stats explain that women are more likely to date less-than-average looking men with higher intelligence.
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However, average women with intelligence being deemed attractive by men, is at a 40%.
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Four: a study that delved into speed dating found that people who were the most narcissistic, scored higher in attractiveness.
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So pretty much, because narcissists care so much about their appearance, that translates to them being more attractive.
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So, number five is really shallow.
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To stop people from cheating on you, date people in your 'league', or settle for people who are traditionally less attractive than you are.
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Which, again, SUPER shallow,
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but studies from Harvard showed, that people who felt more attractive than their partners felt less satisfied, and felt like they needed more and cheated more.
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Number six: opposites attract.
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A study found that people are attracted to a different genetic blueprint than their own,
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which lies in our HLA complex, which is crucial to our immune system.
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So, supposedly, we can sense each others' HLA complexes through smell, and opposing complexes lead to sexual attraction.
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Number seven: a study found that beards are hot, and women think a full beard is hubby material, while a little bit of stubble is great for one night stands.
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Over to eight: it's better to be weird in pick-up lines.
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A unique metaphor like, 'your smile is a sea of flowers', is better than 'you're pretty', because it shows that you have some creativity and intelligence.
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Finally, women are attracted to people who are like their brothers,
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which is pretty much an offshoot of us being attracted to people who remind us of our parents.
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So that's all from us at Psych2Go and our nine facts on attraction and psychology.
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'Til next time!
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Still, wear some deoderant.