1. Judging attractiveness: Biases due to raters’ own attractiveness and intelligence
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Stacy Yen-Lin Sim, Jenna Saperia, Jill Anne Brown, and Frank John Bernieri
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judgment biases ,attractiveness judgments ,intelligence ,person perception ,Psychology ,BF1-990 ,Neurophysiology and neuropsychology ,QP351-495 - Abstract
Tennis and Dabbs (1975) reported that physically attractive males showed a positivity bias when rating the attractiveness of others. The opposite pattern was observed for females. We attempted to replicate and extend these findings by: (1) using self-assessed attractiveness rather than the experimentally derived attractiveness measure used in previous research, (2) using face-to-face interactions with targets as opposed to using photographs, and (3) examining the effect of another ego-involving attribute: intelligence. Consistent with previous research, attractiveness judgments made by men, but not women, correlated positively with their own self-perceived level of attractiveness (r = .51, p
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- 2015
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