Hot or Not: Do Professors Perceived as Physically Attractive Receive Higher Student Evaluations?

Riniolo, Todd C.; Johnson, Katherine C.; Sherman, Tracy R; Misso, Julie A

doi:10.3200/genp.133.1.19-35

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“…A review of the literature provides three possible explanations: (a) previous studies have not always attended to possible differences between perceptions of same-sex versus other-sex targets (e.g., Nicklin & Roch, 2008;Riniolo, Johnson, Sherman, & Misso, 2006), (b) some previous studies have used targets (e.g., children) who are unlikely to elicit perceptions of competition or threat in the participant (Langlois, Ritter, Casey, & Sawin, 1995), and (c) many studies have only compared relatively attractive to relatively less attractive targets and have not examined responses to targets who are particularly high in attractiveness (e.g., Jawahar & Mattsson, 2005)-targets for whom negative responses by same-sex persons should be most pronounced. One further explanation is suggested by the current findings: In each study, the positive bias toward attractive other-sex targets was relatively larger in magnitude than the negative bias against attractive same-sex targets.…”

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Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Social Decision Making

Agthe

Spörrle

Maner

2011

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

119

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Previous studies of organizational decision making demonstrate an abundance of positive biases directed toward highly attractive individuals. The current research, in contrast, suggests that when the person being evaluated is of the same sex as the evaluator, attractiveness hurts, rather than helps. Three experiments assessing evaluations of potential job candidates (Studies 1 and 3) and university applicants (Study 2) demonstrated positive biases toward highly attractive other-sex targets but negative biases toward highly attractive same-sex targets. This pattern was mediated by variability in participants’ desire to interact with versus avoid the target individual (Studies 1 and 2) and was moderated by participants’ level of self-esteem (Study 3); the derogation of attractive same-sex targets was not observed among people with high self-esteem. Findings demonstrate an important exception to the positive effects of attractiveness in organizational settings and suggest that negative responses to attractive same-sex targets stem from perceptions of self-threat.

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Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Social Decision Making

Agthe

Spörrle

Maner

2011

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

119

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“…Female teachers were rated more attractive than male teachers; as well as, the ones who explain the lesson more clearly (2007). Other data along a similar vein (available on www.ratemyprofessors.com), point out that professors received high evaluations from their students once acknowledged as physically attractive by these students (Riniolo et al, 2006). And yet, although Raacke and Raacke reported a significant correlation between instructors' attractiveness and how highly they are evaluated by students, the instructors' clarity and efficiency in delivering the subject matter, helpfulness in un-clearing assignments and stimulation in problem solving remain highly valued by the students.…”

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Choosing an English Teacher: The Influence of Gender on the Students’ Choice of Language Teachers

Taqi¹,

Al-Darwish²,

Akbar³

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Gender and teaching are gaining increasing attention in the field of higher education. The significance of teacher gender seems even more crucial in an environment based on gender segregation. In the scope of language teaching and gender, this study investigates the influence of gender on the students' selection of teachers in general, and language teachers more specifically. The participants, 146 English major students in an all-female college of education, were given a questionnaire of 32 statements--to be answered on a 5-point likert scale--and four open-ended questions; all of which aim at examining the difference between male and female English language teachers in terms of attitude, grades, teaching and even appearance. The statistics were analyzed in terms of frequency, mean and variance in correlation with the independent variables of age, social status, GPA and years in college. It was found that most students prefer male teachers as they believe that the positive personal traits of the male teachers far exceed those of the female teachers. Nonetheless, the statistics have revealed that both genders (and sometimes female more than male teachers) are good language teachers. Hence, reflecting the main finding: gender is not a criterion for good language teaching, but it is our students' criterion for choosing a language teacher.

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“…In contrast, Riniolo et al (2006), who also analysed data provided by the website RateMyProfessors.com, suggested that professors perceived as attractive receive better student evaluations regardless of their gender. Hamermesh/Parker (2005), who analysed data collected at the University of Texas at Austin, came to the conclusion that the influence of perceived attractiveness on students' instructional ratings is larger for male than for female…”

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Scholars’ physical appearance, research performance, and feelings of happiness

2015

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Our study aims to analyse whether former feelings of happiness and/or physical appearance have influence on the subsequent observable research performance of scholars. Therefore we significantly increase research performance in 2011/2012. In addition, they suggest that scholars' physical appearance can affect their research performance. In particular we observe that a trustworthy appearance has a significantly positive effect.

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Hot or Not: Do Professors Perceived as Physically Attractive Receive Higher Student Evaluations?

Cited by 151 publications

References 39 publications

Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Social Decision Making

Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Social Decision Making

Choosing an English Teacher: The Influence of Gender on the Students’ Choice of Language Teachers

Scholars’ physical appearance, research performance, and feelings of happiness

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