About Face: The Association Between Facial Appearance and Status Attainment Among Military Personnel

Hochschild, Thomas R.; Borch, Casey

doi:10.1080/02732173.2011.557132

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“…Beyond the initial hiring phase, attractiveness may also play a role in subsequent occupational status attainment. For example, Navy sailors who were rated as highly attractive in comparison to their peers were evaluated as highly intelligent and possessing good leadership qualities (Hochschild and Borch ). Further, these sailors advanced more rapidly to higher ranks than their lower‐rated colleagues.…”

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Physical Attractiveness and Social Status

Frevert

Walker

2014

Sociology Compass

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In this article, we outline the evidence regarding the status effects of physical attractiveness, paying particular attention to outcomes in the areas of jobs, crime, performance evaluations, power, health perceptions, and exchange. The framework of status characteristics theory is used to guide our explication. The role of attractiveness in marketing is also discussed. While the literature generally supports the idea that attractiveness is good for people, we also consider evidence that beauty can be detrimental for some individuals in certain situations. Issues of race and gender are also considered as well as future research directions.

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Physical Attractiveness and Social Status

Frevert

Walker

2014

Sociology Compass

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“…We can accurately judge personality traits and physical health from face images 1 , and the impression of social traits from faces can have real-world consequences. Ratings of traits such as competence 2 , 3 and attractiveness 4 predict election success, and ratings of attractiveness predict employment decisions 5 , 6 . In fact, perceived facial attractiveness has been linked to outcomes as diverse as court sentencing, cooperation, and marketing success (see recent review ref.…”

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Forming impressions of facial attractiveness is mandatory

Ritchie

Palermo

Rhodes

2017

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First impressions of social traits, such as attractiveness, from faces are often claimed to be made automatically, given their speed and reliability. However, speed of processing is only one aspect of automaticity. Here we address a further aspect, asking whether impression formation is mandatory. Mandatory formation requires that impressions are formed about social traits even when this is task-irrelevant, and that once formed, these impressions are difficult to inhibit. In two experiments, participants learned what new people looked like for the purpose of future identification, from sets of images high or low in attractiveness. They then rated middle-attractiveness images of each person, for attractiveness. Even though instructed to rate the specific images, not the people, their ratings were biased by the attractiveness of the learned images. A third control experiment, with participants rating names, demonstrated that participants in Experiments 1 and 2 were not simply rating the people, rather than the specific images as instructed. These results show that the formation of attractiveness impressions from faces is mandatory, thus broadening the evidence for automaticity of facial impressions. The mandatory formation of impressions is likely to have an important impact in real-world situations such as online dating sites.

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“…This is especially important given the real-life consequences of such first impressions. For example, impressions of trustworthiness from facial photographs predict online financial lending decisions (Duarte et al, 2012 ; Yang, 2014 ), facial impressions of competence predict voting choices (Todorov et al, 2005 ; Antonakis and Dalgas, 2009 ), and facial impressions of attractiveness affect hiring and promotions (Gilmore et al, 1986 ; Lutz, 2010 ; Hochschild and Borch, 2011 ).…”

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Personality judgments from everyday images of faces

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People readily make personality attributions to images of strangers' faces. Here we investigated the basis of these personality attributions as made to everyday, naturalistic face images. In a first study, we used 1000 highly varying “ambient image” face photographs to test the correspondence between personality judgments of the Big Five and dimensions known to underlie a range of facial first impressions: approachability, dominance, and youthful-attractiveness. Interestingly, the facial Big Five judgments were found to separate to some extent: judgments of openness, extraversion, emotional stability, and agreeableness were mainly linked to facial first impressions of approachability, whereas conscientiousness judgments involved a combination of approachability and dominance. In a second study we used average face images to investigate which main cues are used by perceivers to make impressions of the Big Five, by extracting consistent cues to impressions from the large variation in the original images. When forming impressions of strangers from highly varying, naturalistic face photographs, perceivers mainly seem to rely on broad facial cues to approachability, such as smiling.

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About Face: The Association Between Facial Appearance and Status Attainment Among Military Personnel

Cited by 10 publications

References 73 publications

Physical Attractiveness and Social Status

Physical Attractiveness and Social Status

Forming impressions of facial attractiveness is mandatory

Personality judgments from everyday images of faces

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