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When beauty may fail

When beauty may fail Describes a study in which the person perception study by K. K. Dion et al was quasi-replicated in order to assess the generality of the "what is beautiful is good" stereotype. In Exp I, 40 female participants who were either unattractive, average, or physically attractive made a variety of attributions about female target persons of varying attractiveness levels. Attribution favorability was found to be contingent upon the physical attractiveness of the participant as well as the dimensions along which the attributions were made. While many of the attributions were congruent with the postulated stereotype, others were not. Socially undesirable attributions regarding vanity, egotism, likelihood of marital disaster (requesting a divorce/having an extramarital affair), and likelihood of being bourgeois (materialistic/snobbish/unsympathetic to oppressed peoples) were reliably increasing monotonic functions of target persons' attractiveness levels. Plausible explanations for these divergencies were explored in Exp II with 354 randomly sampled university students. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Personality and Social Psychology American Psychological Association

When beauty may fail

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0022-3514
eISSN
1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/h0077085
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Abstract

Describes a study in which the person perception study by K. K. Dion et al was quasi-replicated in order to assess the generality of the "what is beautiful is good" stereotype. In Exp I, 40 female participants who were either unattractive, average, or physically attractive made a variety of attributions about female target persons of varying attractiveness levels. Attribution favorability was found to be contingent upon the physical attractiveness of the participant as well as the dimensions along which the attributions were made. While many of the attributions were congruent with the postulated stereotype, others were not. Socially undesirable attributions regarding vanity, egotism, likelihood of marital disaster (requesting a divorce/having an extramarital affair), and likelihood of being bourgeois (materialistic/snobbish/unsympathetic to oppressed peoples) were reliably increasing monotonic functions of target persons' attractiveness levels. Plausible explanations for these divergencies were explored in Exp II with 354 randomly sampled university students.

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – American Psychological Association

Published: Jun 1, 1975

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