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Argh, you mildly disappoint me Zip. Somehow my last post sneaked past your attention. No biggie, apologies for double post.
Man, all I do lately is fail to impress you or mildly disappoint you.

Yeah, I replied to this but I must have failed to actually post it. My bad, dude. I'm glad you re-posted.
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I was browsing through the forum in search for something vaguely interesting the other day when I stumbled upon your microcosm attraction theory. It was sort of ground-breaking to me, because up until this point I thought a girl's attraction circuitry 'decides' whether she likes the guy during the first several minutes of interaction - I think it's something David DeAngelo says in his 'Attraction isnt a choice' book.
So the question I pose to you is this: what are the dynamics here? Can you be initially unattracted to a person and change your mind after, say, a week/month? If so, how/why? And does it work the other way, that is to say, once you are attracted to a guy, can it change provided he doesn't do something stupid?
It's very interesting stuff to me, and if someone else has insights into it - please share or start another thread altogether (depending on how deep a discussion we're trying to start).
Zip, do what you do best - enlighten us.
Yes you can be initially unattracted to a person and change your mind in the future. Absolutely. This happened to me with bf 2. And on we go to a tangent to illustrate:
I thought he was a total loser when I first met him. I actually made fun of this guy every chance I could. Come three months later, he jumps in social standing and changes his appearance a bit.
He immediately starts looking attractive to me. I was noticing the change in appearance, but kept it to myself because I still felt I was in a higher social position. However, as soon as the community accepted this guy as quality, I accepted this guy as quality. He even started to smell good to me. I'd be walking randomly along the street and catch a whiff of him, stop, and realize I was enjoying the emotional response I was getting from thinking about him.
He still smells really good to me. (note that I am talking about a man's natural scent... NOT cologne or aftershave or deodorant. that's where the hormones are, baby.)
I guess the moral of the story is that there has to be some sort of social change. Either he gets a quality girlfriend, or he starts working out more and gains "man respect" for that. This is why a lot of my clients who are divorced have their ex-wives start talking to them again as they're being transformed into these PUAs.... because the guy is now getting social proof and walking around with hot women. It starts to turn on our attraction switches.
The converse is true as well. A girl can lose attraction for a guy at the drop of a hat, and this is not due to something stupid a guy does. It's a managerial problem on his part. Either his calibration is off, he's becoming needy, he can't hang it in deep rapport...etc.
The first time I dated bf 1, I chose him because he played football, he was hot, and I could bump up his social standing a bit and make him perfect (I really was an asshole a few years back.) Well, after a while, I started noticing his teeth were a little crooked. Just a little. However, it had not bugged me before a certain point, and I KNEW I had lost all attraction from him. When little things start to bug me about a guy, I know something deeper is going on. I dumped him.
Same goes with the smell thing... if I'm walking around, and I catch a whiff that reminds me of a guy I'm seeing... and I don't like the smell anymore... I know it's time for that guy to go. This is a result of something he's done. He's failed to keep my attraction switches on. They suddenly crash down all at once when I'm triggered by the external stimuli.
Now, what does all this have to do with the microcosm attraction theory... In order for a girl to become attracted to a guy she was previously unattracted to... a social shift must occur. If said guy and girl are transposed from their normal social environment to a smaller microcosm, there is a good chance that the guy could jump in social status within that smaller community. That's when she can notice her hormones start tickling her with the idea of actually liking this guy. These are real feelings and emotions, but they can be transient if moved back to the bigger "pool" and not properly managed.