Physical Attractiveness and Severity of Sentencing

Leventhal, Gloria; Krate, Ronald

doi:10.2466/pr0.1977.40.1.315

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“…baby-faced) tend to be judged less severely, an effect which has been observed in lab settings (e.g. Berry & Zebrowitz-McArthur, 1988;Efran, 1974;Leventhal & Krate, 1977) as well as in field studies (e.g. Stewart, 180;1985;Zebrowitz & McDonald, 1991).…”

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Crime and punishment: Morality judgment in a foreign language.

Woumans¹,

Cruyssen²,

Duyck³

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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The current study examined whether use of a foreign language affects the manner in which people evaluate a criminal situation. We employed a range of crime scenarios, for which severity judgment scores were obtained. Crimes that were written in a foreign language were systematically evaluated as less severe compared with the same cases described in the native language. We propose that these differences may be due to attenuated emotional processing in a non-native language. Crucially, this observed variation in severity judgment may also affect magistrates and police interrogators confronted with crime scenarios formulated in a foreign tongue. This in turn would have inevitable consequences for the penalty they will or will not exact on the suspect.

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confidence: 83%

Crime and punishment: Morality judgment in a foreign language.

Woumans¹,

Cruyssen²,

Duyck³

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…Sigall and Ostrove () reported that attractive defendants received lower ratings of guilt and less severe recommendations for punishment than unattractive defendants in a simulated jury scenario (Gross & Crofton, ; for comparable results see also Efran, ; Michelini & Snodgrass, ). Similarly, Leventhal and Krate () found a significantly negative relationship between a defendant's physical attractiveness and assigned length of sentencing, and Mazzella and Feingold () argued that it is generally advantageous for defendants to be physically attractive. To summarize, the outlined findings suggest that attractive suspects would be less likely judged as guilty during an audit.…”

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Do fine feathers make a fine bird? The influence of attractiveness on fraud‐risk judgments by internal auditors

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Independence and objectivity are key principles assumed to underlie internal auditors' fraud-risk judgments. However, a substantial body of evidence suggests that physical attractiveness of suspects may influence internal auditors' fraud-risk judgments. In this experimental study we investigated whether internal auditors are susceptible to appearance-related biases, or whether they correct for them due to their expertise and motivation. A total of 193 internal auditors were presented a misappropriationof-assets scenario in which the attractiveness of a suspect was manipulated. To determine whether professional expertise is associated with increased resilience to appearance-related biases, their fraud-risk judgments were contrasted with those acquired from 240 subjects without auditing experience ("naive subjects"). In line with our predictions, attractiveness modulated naive subjects' fraud-risk judgments, whereas internal auditors did not show any indication for appearance-related biases.Our findings suggest that internal auditors' experience and motivation may immunize them to the phenomena of physical attractiveness stereotyping and the attractiveness halo effect.

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“…Another group of scholars refers to a reverse effect, whereby the beauty of the defendant can result in a more severe punishment. Juries in both mock and real trials tend to be more lenient toward more attractive defendants than toward their less attractive counterparts (Buck and Tiene, 1989, Darby and Jeffers 1988, Leventhal and Krate 1977. Attractiveness of the offender could have very well acted as an extralegal factor in trialsin which attractiveness was rewarded with a more lenient sentence (Sporer and Goodman-Dclahunly, 2009).…”

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“…A study that examined the effect of gender and facial characteristics of criminal offenders on attributions of crime-relevant traits showed slight tendencies toward more lenient appraisals of the more attractive women (Ahola et al 2009). Some studies find that physically attractive defendants are less likely to be found guilty, and even those who are convictedreceive shorter sentences (Efran 1974, Leventhal and Krate 1977, Darby and Jeffers 1988, Desantis and Kayson 1997. In severe cases, physical attractiveness did not influence whether the defendant was acquitted or convicted, but it did influence sentence length (Stewart, 1980(Stewart, , 1985.…”

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Beauty and the Welfare State

Polyzoidis¹

2019

IJHSS

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People spend billions of dollars on improving their image. Beautiful men and women are perceived as happier and more intelligent, trustworthy, successful and popular. There is plenty of scientific evidence that shows that physical appearance plays a significant role in political elections, education, the labor market, income and justice. All these findings lead to the plausible question of whether physical appearance has an impact on welfare provisions. The purpose of this paper is not to answer this question directly but to investigate whether it is worth exploring further. We discuss the possible impact of physical attractiveness on health and social security and attempt to discover its possible impact on social care through an empirical approach based on primary data collected by a survey targeting people who are active in social care organizations. The main conclusion is that physical attractiveness has an indirect impact on health services and social security and a marginal impact on social care provision.

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Physical Attractiveness and Severity of Sentencing

Cited by 36 publications

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Crime and punishment: Morality judgment in a foreign language.

Crime and punishment: Morality judgment in a foreign language.

Do fine feathers make a fine bird? The influence of attractiveness on fraud‐risk judgments by internal auditors

Beauty and the Welfare State

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