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Beautiful is good: Evidence that the physically attractive are more socially skillful
William Goldman,Philip Lewis +1 more
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The possibility that the so-called physical attractiveness stereotype may contain a kernel of truth was investigated in a study where college students interacted with opposite sex partners whom they could not see as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.The article was published on 1977-01-01. It has received 192 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Physical attractiveness stereotype & Interpersonal attraction.read more
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Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review.
Judith H. Langlois,Lisa Kalakanis,Adam J. Rubenstein,Andrea Larson,Monica Hallam,Monica Smoot +5 more
TL;DR: Eleven meta-analyses evaluate social and fitness-related evolutionary theories and the veracity of maxims about beauty to demonstrate that raters agree about who is and is not attractive, both within and across cultures.
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What is beautiful is good, but…: A meta-analytic review of research on the physical attractiveness stereotype.
TL;DR: The authors showed that the physical attractiveness stereotype established by studies of person perception is not as strong or general as suggested by the often-used summary phrase what is beautiful is good, and that the average magnitude of this beauty-is-good effect was moderate, and the strength of the effect varied considerably from study to study Consistent with their implicit personality theory framework, a substantial portion of this variation was explained by the specific content of the inferences that subjects were asked to make.
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Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of interpersonal consequences: A meta-analysis.
Nalini Ambady,Robert Rosenthal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis was conducted on the accuracy of predictions of various objective outcomes in the areas of social and clinical psychology from short observations of expressive behavior (under 5 min).
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Good-looking people are not what we think.
TL;DR: In this article, meta-analysis was used to examine findings in two related areas: experimental research on the physical attractiveness stereotype and correlational studies of characteristics associated with physical attractiveness, and they found that both of these areas are related to physical attractiveness stereotypes.
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Profiting from controversy. Lessons from the person-situation debate.
TL;DR: Seven hypotheses that arose during the course of the person-situation debate, ranging from most to least pessimistic about the existence of consensual, discriminative personality traits are examined.
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What is beautiful is what is good
TL;DR: The present results indicate a "what is beautiful is good" stereotype along the physical attractiveness dimension with no Sex of Judge X Sex of Stimulus interaction, which has implications on self-concept development and the course of social interaction.
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Importance of physical attractiveness in dating behavior.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied level of aspiration theory to choice of social goals and found that the most important determinant of a person's liking for a date was the date's physical attractiveness.
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Physical attractiveness and dating choice: A test of the matching hypothesis☆
TL;DR: In this paper, the saliency of possible rejection by the dating choice was varied and both experiments found support for the principle of matching in social choice, however, not just under conditions in which rejection was presumably salient but for all conditions of choice.