Cross-gender judgments of cues and attributes from photographs

Abstract

It was hypothesized that judgments about a stimulus person are more dependent upon interpersonal inferences and are less controlled by the actual features of the stimulus as the observer moves from judgments of cues to judgments of dispositional attributes to decisions about how to relate to the stimulus person. The data tend to support this hypothesis for cues versus attributes, but they suggest that a decision about how to relate to the stimulus person is no less under the control of “objective” features of the stimulus person than are attribute judgments. Judgments of physical attractiveness, however, were more similar to cue judgments than to attribute judgments.