Jean+Thompson+RP+post+2


 * Research questions
 * What makes something beautiful?
 * What constitutes beauty?
 * What causes sexual attraction?
 * What influences sexual attraction?
 * //It's Better to be Average -- And 16 Other Surprising Laws of Human Sexual Attraction//
 * Macrina Cooper-White, //The Huffington Post//
 * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/17-facts-about-human-sexual-attraction_n_3817941.html
 * Sunday 9:20 PM,
 * SOAPSTone
 * Sex Appeal
 * The pursuit of science/ The growing human social spectrum
 * Those interested in new love, researchers, really any mature human demographic
 * To inform others of basic scientifically discovered knowledge on sex appeal
 * Scientists/Macrina Cooper-White
 * informative, colloquial, mildly comical, inviting
 * The article gives a brief introduction before listing 17 important "must-know" facts about sexual attraction. The facts include the average known things to the less known, like the "golden ratio" of facial features or that people are attracted to women with hourglass figures.
 * Although sex appeal is often determined as a highly subjective topic, it is scientifically proven that there are specific factors and attributes that influence and sexual attraction towards another human.
 * Because of the mildly casual language, I feel only (on a scale of 1-10 lbs) 7 lbs persuaded by the article. This, I find to be because I feel like I should myself first confirm that the facts presented are plausible, seeing as this is certainly not a first-hand source of a researcher.
 * Key sentences or passages
 * "If you choose a perfectly symmetrical partner  and reproduce with them, your offspring will have a better chance of being symmetric and able to deal with perturbations"
 * "It's better to be average"
 * "Your parents affect what you're looking for"
 * "The nose knows"
 * "In a University of Rochester study, men found women wearing red to be more attractive  and sexually desirable, compared to women in blue. The study suggests that red serves as a signal for sexual excitation, since the effect also occurs in nonhuman primates."