The Effects of Attractiveness and Status on Personality Evaluation

Tartaglia, Stefano; Rollero, Chiara

doi:10.5964/ejop.v11i4.896

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“…Vaillancort (2013) described the actions one takes to maintain status within one's gender as "intrasexual competition". For women, this may include indirect aggressive behavior which highlights self and passively devalues (i.e., isolates, give negative appraisals, speak ill of) women they find more attractive/threatening with the ultimate goal to gain/sustain social status and appeal to males/mates/those in authority (Dellesega, 2005;Fisher & Cox, 2009;Tartaglia & Rollero, 2015;Vaillancort, 2013).…”

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Racial Identity and Its Impact on Job Applicants

Steward¹,

Cunningham²

2015

Journal of Sport Management

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Drawing from Social Dominance Theory and Prejudice Distribution Theory, the purpose of these three experimental studies was to examine how Whites evaluate racial minorities (African American and Latino) with a strong racial identity. In Study 1, participants evaluated applicants for an athletic director position. Relative to their weakly identified counterparts, applicants believed to possess a strong racial identity were rated as a poorer fit for the job. Results from Study 2, which was also set within the context of hiring an athletic director, show that participant social dominance orientation moderates the relationship between racial identity and subsequent evaluations. Study 3 explored the impact of racial identity on salary and job-related attributes for African American and Latina applicants in the fitness industry as well as gender biases of participants. Study 3 results revealed a relationship between rater gender, applicant race or racial identity and job-related attributes as well as suggested salary. Specifically, strongly identified Latina applicants were rated most negatively by male reviewers in comparison to weakly identified Latina and African American applicants. Interestingly, the inverse was found for female raters. These studies support and extend the current literature as well as highlight the unique way displays of racial identity impact minority applicants in sport and fitness contexts. These findings have both theoretical and practical implications for organizations and minority applicants. The author also discusses limitations and future directions.

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Racial Identity and Its Impact on Job Applicants

Steward¹,

Cunningham²

2015

Journal of Sport Management

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“…We hypothesize that in a speed dating context, when participants stay interested and want to exchange contacts with a potential partner to keep in contact in future, the perceived attractiveness will increase, and when they do not want it, it will not change. Many studies showed that knowing characteristics of a person changes the perception of attractiveness ( Tartaglia and Rollero, 2015 ; Gerlach and Reinhard, 2018 ). For example, both laboratory (e.g., Lewandowski et al, 2007 ) and naturalistic (e.g., Kniffin and Wilson, 2004 ) experiments show that personality and other non-physical characteristics affect physical attractiveness judgments.…”

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“Time Slows Down Whenever You Are Around” for Women but Not for Men

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What happens when we unexpectedly see an attractive potential partner? Previous studies in laboratory settings suggest that the visualization of attractive and unattractive photographs influences the perception of time. The major aim of this research is to study time perception and attraction in a realistic social scenario, by investigating if changes in subjective time measured during a speed dating are associated with attraction. The duration of the dates was variable and participants had to estimate the time that passed. Among other measures, participants also rated the potential partners in terms of their physical attractiveness before and after the dates and reported if they would like to exchange contact with them. Results showed that, in a real speed dating situation, when there is a perception of the partner as being physically more attractive, women tend to overestimate the duration of that meeting, whereas men tend to underestimate its duration. Such changes may reflect evolutionary adaptations which make the human cognitive system more responsive in situations related to reproductive fitness.

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“…A high level of agreement across individuals, cultures, and age groups has been found in terms of how attractiveness is perceived, yet there is still a debate about whether this reflects an innate preference ( Langlois et al, 1987 ), or common learning as a result of adaptation (e.g., Hahn & Perrett, 2014 ). Crucially, facial attractiveness appears to be highly valued in social exchanges, with evidence pointing to an advantage for attractive people in terms of how others perceive and judge them in social interactions and beyond ( Langlois et al, 2000 ; Mobius & Rosenblat, 2006 ; Riniolo, Johnson, Sherman, & Misso, 2006 ; Tartaglia & Rollero, 2015 ; Zebrowitz, Hall, Murphy, & Rhodes, 2002 ). Research has shown that people consider themselves more attractive than the average person ( Horton, 2003 ).…”

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Identifying with the beautiful: Facial attractiveness effects on unisensory and multisensory self–other distinction

Panagiotopoulou

Crucianelli

Lemma

et al. 2021

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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People tend to evaluate their own traits and abilities favourably and such favourable self-perceptions extend to attractiveness. However, the exact mechanism underlying this self-enhancement bias remains unclear. One possibility could be the identification with attractive others through blurring of self-other boundaries. Across two experiments, we used the enfacement illusion to investigate the effect of others’ attractiveness in the multisensory perception of the self. In Experiment 1 (N=35), participants received synchronous or asynchronous interpersonal visuo-tactile stimulation with an attractive and non-attractive face. In Experiment 2 (N=35), two new faces were used and spatial incοngruency was introduced as a control condition. The results showed that increased ratings of attractiveness of an unfamiliar face lead to blurring of self-other boundaries, allowing the identification of our psychological self with another's physical self and, specifically, their face, and this seems to be unrelated to perceived own attractiveness. The effect of facial attractiveness on face ownership showed dissociable mechanisms, with multisensory integration modulating the effect on similarity but not identification, an effect that may be purely based on vision. Overall, our findings suggest that others’ attractiveness may lead to positive distortions of the self. This research provides a psychophysical starting point for studying the impact of others' attractiveness on self-face recognition, which can be particularly important for individuals with malleable, embodied self-other boundaries and body image disturbances.

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The Effects of Attractiveness and Status on Personality Evaluation

Cited by 15 publications

References 39 publications

Racial Identity and Its Impact on Job Applicants

Racial Identity and Its Impact on Job Applicants

“Time Slows Down Whenever You Are Around” for Women but Not for Men

Identifying with the beautiful: Facial attractiveness effects on unisensory and multisensory self–other distinction

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