Ratings Of Physical Attractiveness Research Articles

Effect of facial expression variations on ratings of infants' physical attractiveness.

Effect of facial expression variations on ratings of infants' physical attractiveness.

Effect of facial expression variations on ratings of infants' physical attractiveness.

Effect of facial expression variations on ratings of infants' physical attractiveness.

Physical Attractiveness and Self-Esteem Ratings of Young Adults with Cleft Lip and/or Palate

This study investigated the relationship between self-ratings of physical attractiveness and self-esteem for young adults with cleft lip and/or palate. 67 patients completed a Physical Attractiveness Scale and a Self-esteem Scale. The physically attractive group rated themselves higher in self-esteem than did the less attractive group of patients. Age and ratings of physical attractiveness were correlated. Younger persons had higher ratings of physical attractiveness. There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in relation to sex of patient, educational attainment, or type of cleft, The lack of differences in types of cleft may be explained by improvement in techniques of plastic surgery which have reduced the likelihood of facial disfigurement.

Physical Attractiveness and Expectations of Success

To examine the relationship between physical attractiveness and expectations of success, 60 women rated their expected success at social and nonsocial tasks and their physical attractiveness. Observers also judged the women's overall and facial physical attractiveness. Self and observers' overall ratings of physical attractiveness correlated positively with success expectations in social situations. These ratings of physical attractiveness were particularly predictive of success expectations for affective relationships, but less predictive of success expectations for tasks requiring manipulative, skilled, or intellectual abilities. A lifespan developmental explanation of the forces of reciprocal determinism was offered as an interpretation of these results.

The effects of attitudes toward feminism and perceived feminism on physical attractiveness ratings

The effects of perceived feminism of females and attitudes toward feminism of males on physical attractiveness ratings of female stimulus persons (SPs) were investigated, using two alternative hypotheses: first, SPs who are perceived as feminists would be rated as less attractive than SPs not perceived as feminists; second, profeminist males would rate profeminist women as more attractive than nonfeminist women, and vice versa for nonfeminist males. Seventy-six male college students responded to the Smith-Ferree-Miller questionnaire on attitudes toward feminism and then rated on an 8-point scale of attractiveness 6 photographs of female SPs which had been selected from a pretested sample of 18 photographs. Perceived feminism of the SPs in the photographs was manipulated by presenting the raters with four attitude statements, two of which related to feminism. Although there were no main effects for the two variables, significant interaction did occur, confirming the second (attitude similarity) hypothesis. A negative halo effect, as opposed to a belief in the unattractiveness of feminists, was offered as an explanation of the difference in results between this study and the Goldberg, Gottesdiener, and Abramson (1975) study.

The Effect of Perceived Smoking Status on Attractiveness

The anti-smoking campaign appears to influence attitudes toward smokers but previous research suggests the effect is restricted to nonsmokers. Psychological attractiveness findings predict that smokers would find other smokers attractive while nonsmokers would prefer nonsmokers. The present study tested smoker and nonsmoker attitudes toward smoking and nonsmoking targets. As predicted, smokers preferred smokers and nonsmokers preferred nonsmokers, although smokers in general were rated less attractive. Physical attractiveness ratings were not influenced by status.

Physical Attractiveness and Friendliness in Interpersonal Attraction

36 male students, 29 undergraduate, and 7 graduate, were given a photograph of one of two women (one of whom was judged to be considerably more attractive than the other) and one of two “autobiographical” statements (one of which depicted a warm, friendly person and the other a cold, unfriendly person). Each subject examined the material from one of the four possible treatment levels and rated the woman for personality, social, and physical attractiveness. The subjects also rated themselves for physical attractiveness. Two 2 × 2 multivariate analyses of variance were performed to evaluate subjects' ratings of personality and social attractiveness and a 2 × 2 analysis of variance was used to evaluate ratings of physical attractiveness. Personality ratings were significantly increased by the friendliness and physical attractiveness of the stimulus while the social attractiveness of the woman was significantly increased only by her physical attractiveness. Ratings of physical attractiveness were significantly influenced only by the photographs. The subjects' self-ratings were uncorrelated with their ratings of the women's physical attractiveness.

Physical attractiveness, body attitudes, and self-concept in late adolescents

Seventy male and 119 female late adolescents, enrolled in a college introductory psychology course, rated 24 body characteristics in terms of (1) how important each part was in determining their own physical attractiveness and (2) how physically attractive they assumed each of these parts of their own bodies were. In addition, all subjects responded to a short self-concept scale. Results indicated that males and females rated the importance of the body characteristics for their own physical attractiveness in a markedly similar manner and that mean physical attractiveness ratings were significantly related to the self-concepts of females but not of males. Moreover, the attractiveness ratings of a larger number of individual body parts were significantly related to self-concept for females than for males. Finally, a visual inspection technique for determining physique type was found related to self-concept in males, while this was not the case with a traditional anthropometric index of physique type. Sex differences in the role of physical attractiveness in personality and interpersonal behavior development are discussed.

Physical Attractiveness of Female Offenders

Physical attractiveness ratings and five measures of institution performance were obtained for 75 female former residents at a federal youth center. Physical attractiveness was found to be significantly related to the number of town trips and the number of high stigma aggressive and high stigma nonaggressive negative behavior reports. In general, the relationships between the other performance measures and physical attractiveness were in the predicted direction. Some relationships between performance measures and physical attractiveness were affected by race of the resident. Results were discussed in terms of other reported findings on the effects of physical attractiveness.

Facial attractiveness and juvenile delinquency among black and white offenders

Facial pictures of black and white delinquents were significantly less attractive than pictures of corresponding groups of high school students, as judged by same-race raters. Significant differences were found among the white delinquents, but not among the black, for Quay's four behavioral dimensions of delinquency. Black delinquents were significantly darker in skin color than the black high school students, and lightness of skin color was positively correlated with physical attractiveness ratings made by both black and white raters, indicating that neither race has yet assimilated the saying "black is beautiful." This and other evidence suggest that facial attractiveness may be causal in delinquency.