Role of physical attractiveness in peer attribution of psychological disturbance.

Cash, Thomas F.; Kehr, Jo A.; Polyson, James; Freeman, Valerie

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.45.6.987

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“…Perhaps, given their greater perceived maturity (Berscheid & Walster, 1974), self-direction (Miller, 1970), and employment potential, the attractive applicants were seen as more capable of resolving their own career goals and as less needy of guidance than other applicants. This interpretation is consistent with the findings of other research (Cash, Kehr, Polyson, & Freeman, 1977) that therapeutic guidance is recommended as less neces-sary for attractive than for unattractive individuals to resolve identical psychological difficulties.…”

Section: Alternatives To Employmentsupporting

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Sexism and beautyism in personnel consultant decision making.

Cash

Gillen²,

Burns³

1977

Journal of Applied Psychology

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Each of 72 professional personnel consultants rated the suitability of one bogus applicant for selected masculine, feminine, and neuter jobs, and for alternatives to employment. Each resume was identical with the exception of the systematic variation of the applicant's sex and the omission or inclusion of a photo depicting the applicant as physically attractive or unattractive. As predicted, personnel decisions strongly reflected the operation of sex-role stereotypes as well as sex-relevant and sex-irrelevant attractiveness stereotypes. These factors similarly affected consultants' recommendations of alternatives to employment and consultants' causal attributions of applicants' projected occupational successes and failures.Sex-role typing provides a significant example of the powerful effects of stereotypes in the expansion and restriction of alternatives of expression and action available to men and to women in our society (Bern, 197S;Block, von der Lippe, & Block, 1973;Broverman, Vogel, Broverman, Clarkson, & Rosenkrantz, 1972). The influence of sex-role stereotypes on both access and employee treatment is centrally important to sex discrimination in employment, a practice prohibited by Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, The social sciences have begun to systematically examine sex discrimination in a number of settings, both naturalistic and experimental. The greatest amount of research has assessed discrimination against females in traditionally masculine, that is, male-dominated, occupations. Men have been evaluated more favorably than women for writing journal articles (Goldberg, 1968), for painting pictures (Pheterson, Kiesler, & Goldberg, 1971), and for

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Section: Alternatives To Employmentsupporting

confidence: 91%

Sexism and beautyism in personnel consultant decision making.

Cash

Gillen²,

Burns³

1977

Journal of Applied Psychology

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“…Although sometimes traits attributed to the handicapped may be positive (Comer and Piliavin 1972), for the most part physically stigmatized individuals are likely to provoke negative emotions (Cash et al 1977); interactions between the physically stigmatized and others are often strained and tensionproducing (Goffman 1963;Jones et al 1984;Kleck 1968;Richardson et al 1961). Also, the physically stigmatized are often the victims of overt discrimination (Dietz, Littman, and Bentley 1984;Grey and Ashmore 1976;Piliavin, Piliavin, and Rodin 1975).…”

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Racial Variation in Reaction to Physical Stigma: A Study of Degree of Disturbance by Vitiligo Among Black and White Patients

Porter

Beuf²

1991

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

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“…Several studies have shown unattractive defendants were evaluated with more certainty of guilt and assigned harsher punishments than attractive individuals in both simulated and actual trials (Efran, 1974; Mazzella & Feingold, 1994). Furthermore, attractiveness seems to influence the perception of a person’s mental health; when participants were presented with an audio recording of a staged psychological interview with a person and were either shown a photo of an unattractive individual, a photo of an attractive individual, or no accompanying photo, participants who were shown the unattractive photo attributed greater maladjustment and disturbances with a poorer prognosis to that person than the other conditions (Cash, Kehr, Polyson, & Freeman, 1977). Given these findings that highlight the effects if unattractiveness, it makes sense why there was an even greater inclination to associate negative traits together (i.e., unattractive voices with unattractive faces) than there was to associate positive traits together (i.e., attractive voices with attractive faces).…”

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What sounds beautiful looks beautiful stereotype

Hughes

Miller

2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study experimentally tested whether individuals have a tendency to associate attractive voices with attractive faces and, alternately, unattractive voices with unattractive faces. Participants viewed pairings of facial photographs of attractive and unattractive individuals and had listened to attractive and unattractive voice samples and were asked to indicate which facial picture they thought was more likely to be the speaker of the voice heard. Results showed that there was an overall tendency to associate attractive voices with attractive faces and unattractive voices with unattractive faces, suggesting that a “what-sounds-beautiful-looks-beautiful” stereotype exists. Interestingly, there was an even stronger propensity to pair unattractive voices to unattractive faces than for the attractive voice–face matching.

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Role of physical attractiveness in peer attribution of psychological disturbance.

Cited by 40 publications

References 16 publications

Sexism and beautyism in personnel consultant decision making.

Sexism and beautyism in personnel consultant decision making.

Racial Variation in Reaction to Physical Stigma: A Study of Degree of Disturbance by Vitiligo Among Black and White Patients

What sounds beautiful looks beautiful stereotype

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