This will probably need more research, but I'm thinking about mouldability, adaptability and the projection of identities. It seems apparent that human beings are like chameleons. We change our skins to fit in with the environment. For example, we start to emulate the people we admire, or are close to, by mimicking or following their behavioral gestures or mannerisms of speech and by picking up certain habits that were not ours to begin with. The human body starts mirroring the other person or persons, abeit not wholesale, but in little ways. This is especially true in dating - When the male or female begins to mirror the other person's actions, for example the girl crosses her legs and the guy crosses his legs too, the attractive-ness of the person is upped because the body sends out signals that both are compatible with each other. To bring in another example, perhaps stretching it a little, girls who are close friends with each other, begin to find that their menstral cycles start to synchronise with each other.

I have a number of theories in which people might find other people attractive. The first, is symmetry. The human body naturally seeks out symmetry, so the more symmetrical the form, the more balanced and thus more beautiful the person appears to be. (Thank God, I am at least round in my body shape - all sides being equal).

The second is the theory of mirroring. A person becomes attractive because he or she mirrors the self - acts like the self, talks like the self, behaves like the self.

The third, is the theory of projection. Our own desires are projected upon another person and thus we find him or her especially attractive, because the person appears to make manifest our hidden desires. This is a little complicated and will probably need more work formulating this into words, but these three things are currently what are floating about in my head.

What do you think?