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Article: The effects of women's age and physical appearance on evaluations of attractiveness and social desirability.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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In a landmark study, Dion, Bersheid, and Walster (1972) showed participants photographs of attractive and unattractive individuals and asked them to rate these target people on a series of personality traits. They found that attractive individuals are perceived as more sensitive, kind, sociable, interesting, outgoing, strong, poised, and exciting than less attractive people. These findings stimulated 25 years of research into the physical attractiveness stereotype. In a recent meta-analytic review of this research, Feingold (1992) concluded that there are few dispositional differences between physically attractive and physically unattractive people; nonetheless, physically ...