Miscalibrations in judgements of attractiveness with cosmetics

Jones, Alex L.; Kramer, Robin S. S.; Ward, Robert

doi:10.1080/17470218.2014.908932

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“…Finally, we manipulate the subtlety of our colour manipulation in order to test whether this alters evaluations of leadership ability. This extends Mileva and colleagues' work, by taking into account evidence that women wear more makeup than is optimally attractive (Jones et al, 2014), and that quantity of makeup alters perceptions of traits that may be important in a good leader, such as likeability, trustworthiness and competence (Etcoff et al, 2011). If, in general, makeup enhances perceived leadership ability, this would be consistent with prior work relating makeup to status (reviewed in Mileva et al, 2016).…”

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“…Although prior work suggests that women self-apply more makeup than is optimally attractive (Jones et al, 2014) and our stronger colour manipulation had greater negative effects on perceptions of leadership ability, further work could directly test whether self-application of makeup for different contexts (e.g. work versus a social night out) has differential effects on perceptions of women when judging them as leaders versus other traits related to dominance that may be more applicable to mating contexts.…”

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Negative Effects of Makeup Use on Perceptions of Leadership Ability Across Two Ethnicities

2018

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Cosmetics alter social perceptions, and prior work suggests that cosmetic use may aid female intrasexual competition, making women appear more dominant to other women but more prestigious to other men. It is unclear whether these findings reflect general improvements in perceptions of traits related to women's dominance or if they are specific to mating contexts only. Here, across two ethnicities, we examined effects of cosmetics used for a social night out on perceptions of women's leadership ability, a trait that denotes competence/high status outside of mating contexts. Participants of African and Caucasian ethnicity judged faces for leadership ability where half of the trials differed in ethnicity (own- vs. other-ethnicity face pairs) and the subtlety of the color manipulation (50% vs. 100%). Regardless of the participant's sex or ethnicity, makeup used for a social night out had a negative effect on perceptions of women's leadership ability. Our findings suggest that, in prior work, women are afforded traits related to dominance, as makeup enhances perceptions of traits that are important for successful female mating competition but not other components of social dominance such as leadership.

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Negative Effects of Makeup Use on Perceptions of Leadership Ability Across Two Ethnicities

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“…All models provided informed consent to have their pictures used for future experiments (see A. L. Jones, Kramer, & Ward, 2014;A. L. Jones & Kramer, 2015).…”

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Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics

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Women wearing cosmetics have been associated with a higher earning potential and higher status jobs. However, recent literature suggests that status can be accrued through two distinct routes: dominance and prestige (Henrich & Gil-White, 2001). In two experiments, we applied a standardized amount of cosmetics to female faces using computer software. We then asked participants to rate faces with and without cosmetics for various traits including attractiveness, dominance, and prestige. Men and women both rated the faces with cosmetics added as higher in attractiveness. However, only women rated faces with cosmetics as higher in dominance, while only men rated them as higher in prestige. In a follow up study, we investigated whether these enhanced perceptions of dominance from women were caused by jealousy. We found that women experience more jealousy toward women with cosmetics, and view these women as more attractive to men and more promiscuous. Our findings suggest that cosmetics may function as an extended phenotype and can alter other's perceptions differently depending on the perceiver's sex.

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“…These are the same characteristics preferred for human-human interactions. People are more likely to approach and interact with someone perceived as trustworthy, subordinate, attractive, social, young, and female 26,[40][41][42] . Interactions with a person presenting these characteristics is thought to be preferred because they are 'safer' with lower risk of conflict 5 .…”

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The importance of first impression judgements in interspecies interactions

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Butler

Ritchie

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Close human-wildlife interactions are rapidly growing, particularly due to wildlife tourism popularity. Using both laboratory and ecological observation studies we explored potential interspecies communication signalling mechanisms underpinning human-animal approach behaviour, which to date have been unclear. First impression ratings (n = 227) of Barbary macaques' social and health traits were related to the macaques' facial morphology and their observed behaviour supporting a shared facial signalling system in primates. These ratings significantly predicted intended approach to the macaques during hypothetical interactions. Finally, real-world interspecies proximity was observed and found to be best predicted by the interaction between human first impression perception and animal behaviour. Specifically, perceived macaque health in interaction with actual macaque dominance drives close interactions despite human proclivity to avoid dominant animals, raising safety concerns in interspecies interactions.A growing body of evidence suggests that we automatically form first impressions of people from their faces. These first impressions are made quickly 1 , non-consciously 2 , and incidentally without instruction 3 . These first impression judgements have been shown to influence people's behaviour toward an individual, determining the initiation of positive or negative interactions 4 . For instance, dominance is considered to be a cue of a person's intentions, and a dominant person could be considered as a potential threat 5 . Although the accuracy of first impression judgements has been largely debated 5-7 , previous studies have shown that first impressions of survival-related traits, e.g. dominance, were more accurate and consistent than more subtle characteristics such as intelligence, suggesting a potential evolutionary advantage of accurate first impression judgements. First impressions are important in interactions as they allow for the prediction of future behaviour 8 , which, if these judgements are inaccurate, could lead humans to put themselves at risk. However, to date, little is known about how humans make judgements of whether and how to interact with individual non-human animals (hereafter animals), and whether these judgements are accurate.It has been suggested that humans and non-human primates (hereafter primates) have a shared personality facial signalling system, and that both species could use first impression judgements to accurately assess other primate species' social and health traits 9 . For example, naïve participants have been shown to accurately rate extraversion social traits such as dominance in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from static, neutral faces when compared to personality ratings from the chimpanzees' keepers 9,10 . Japanese and rhesus macaques (Macaca fuscata & Macaca mulatta) have also been shown to have a visual attentional preference for 'trustworthy' human faces 11 . Indeed, morphometric measures of facial structure such as the facial width to height ratio (fWHR) has been e...

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Miscalibrations in judgements of attractiveness with cosmetics

Cited by 28 publications

References 39 publications

Negative Effects of Makeup Use on Perceptions of Leadership Ability Across Two Ethnicities

Negative Effects of Makeup Use on Perceptions of Leadership Ability Across Two Ethnicities

Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics

The importance of first impression judgements in interspecies interactions

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