When we're talking about "attractiveness", what we're ultimately getting at is the entire experience of being with/relating to another person. How much we like

When we're talking about "attractiveness", what we're ultimately getting at is the entire experience of being with/relating to another person. How much we like the way they look is one dimension of it -- possibly pretty hardwired and important, but only one dimension. Seen that way, the idea that attractiveness goes beyond appearance is more or less tautological. Nice to have some experiments that seem to support that to talk about, of course.