Factors Affecting Attraction: Physical Attractiveness - Evaluation
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- Factor Affecting Attraction: Physical Attractiveness
- Support for Halo Effect
- Palmer and Peterson (2012)
- Found those rated more attractive, were believed to have better political knowledge and be more competent
- Beliefs will continue, even once attractive people have been proven to have no expertise.
- There are implications for political system.
- Danger that politicians will be judged based on how attractive they are - rather than their abilities.
- FINDINGS
- Hale effect found to apply in other areas of life - thus confirming physical attractiveness is important in the initiation of relationships.
- Individual Differences
- Towhey (1979)
- Asked female and male participants how much they'd like an individual based on a photograph and biographical information.
- Participants also answered a questionnaire, measuring their sexist attitudes and behaviours.
- ADDITIONAL POINT: Self-report techniques are unreliable, as they can have skewed results due to social disability bias.
- Participants also answered a questionnaire, measuring their sexist attitudes and behaviours.
- Found that participants who scored highly, were more influenced by physical attractiveness when making a judgement of likeability.
- FINDINGS
- Physical attractiveness can be moderated by other factors.
- Challenges notion that it is a significant consideration in relationship formation for all potential partners.
- Support for The Matching Hypothesis
- Walster (1966)
- Original study failed.
- Due to measurement of attractiveness not being reliable.
- LIMITATION: Reduces validity of study.
- Participants only had a few seconds to rate the images shown.
- LIMITATION: Reduces validity of study.
- Participants only had a few seconds to rate the images shown.
- Due to measurement of attractiveness not being reliable.
- Original study failed.
- Feingold (1988)
- Meta-analysis of 17 studies.
- Found significant correlation in ratings of attractiveness between partners.
- ADDITIONAL POINTS: Correlation does not equal causation. There may be a third factor affecting the outcomes.
- FINDINGS
- SUPPORT: because the studies look at actual partners, which is more realistic.
- Walster (1966)
- Support for Halo Effect
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