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Examining the halo effect of physical attractiveness

Timmerman, Karl, Hewitt, Jay·1980·Perceptual and Motor Skills
DOI 10.2466/pms.1980.51.2.607
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Photographs were taken of unattractive female confederates. After professional make-up work and hairstyling, photographs of these individuals were re-taken. Independent evidence was gathered to support the classifications “unattractive” and “attractive” as describing the pre-post conditions. 167 subjects were shown these photographs and rated or rank-ordered the stimulus figures on a variety of dimensions. Interpersonal attraction covaried with physical attractiveness but there was no tendency to attribute more positive personality traits to physically attractive individuals. The results were similar to those of one prior study which also involved an experimental manipulation of physical attractiveness.

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  • The identified saturation effect provides a unifying explanation for several inconsistent findings reported in the literature regarding the existence and strength of the attractiveness halo effect.

    “However, the identified saturation effect provides a unifying explanation for several inconsistent findings reported in the literature regarding the existence [38,39] and strength [11,41,80] of the attractiveness halo effect.”

    From What is beautiful is still good: the attractiveness halo effect in the era of beauty filters (2024) · cites this paper as [39]

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Authors
Timmerman, K., & Hewitt, J.
Affiliations
University of Missouri–Kansas City (US)
Venue
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1980-08
Volume
51
Issue
2
Pages
607-612
ISSN
  • 0031-5125 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-688X
DOI
10.2466/pms.1980.51.2.607
OpenAlex
W2032748185
Cited by
13
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 2
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Perceptual and Motor Skills (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
Keywords
halo effect, physical attractiveness, interpersonal attraction

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