Effects of physical appearance on social responsiveness
Abstract
A behavioral analysis of the consequences of physical appearance on social behavior was undertaken with the view that physical attractiveness operates as a stimulus control variable by occasioning differential interpersonal reinforcement. Fifty-six males were requested to role-play an interaction with the taped performance of a young woman. Video-taped performances were presented under two conditions, attractive and unattractive, to Ss instructed to translate their enacted social responses into “button-presses.” The audio portions of these tapes were presented alone to two additional groups of Ss and no differences attributable to voice quality or speech content were observed. The attractive appearance evoked more social reinforcement and enhanced cognitive-evaluative ratings of calmness, popularity, and friendship desirability.
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The positive and significant β1 for all attributes on the PRI and POST sets supports the existence of the attractiveness halo effect.
“The positive and significant β1 for all attributes on the PRI and POST sets supports the existence of the halo effect and is in line with past work that studied this effect using different subjects in two conditions: original and attractive [26,27,37].”
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Gulati, A., Martínez-Garcia, M., Fernández, D., Lozano, M. A., Lepri, B., & Oliver, N. (2024) · Royal Society Open Science · doi:10.1098/rsos.240882 · Cited by 21 · see citing works
- Authors
- Barocas, R., & Karoly, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester (US)
- ORCID
- Karoly, Paul
- Venue
- Psychological Reports
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1972-10
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 495-500
- ISSN
- 0033-2941 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-691X
- OpenAlex
- W2048651201
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 6.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (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 › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- physical attractiveness, physical appearance, social responsiveness, stimulus control, social behavior, role play, gender differences
- MeSH terms
- Body Constitution, Esthetics, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Personality, Psychodrama, Social Behavior, Social Perception, Tape Recording, Television
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