In extension of previous works, eighty female undergraduates complete questionnaire with snacks and drinks, along with a salt shaker and a pepper shaker available. They are asked to pass salt or pepper by another female or a male who also works on questionnaire, but who is in league with the experimenter. These confederates have either the very long nose or normal-sized (short) nose (le nez normal). Participants comply to both requests, but are slower to respond to pepper request than to salt request and to the person with the long nose. Response times are particularly slow when the request was made by male with long nose (homme avec le nez long). Implications for similarity theory and attraction theory are discussed and suggestions are made for the future research going forward.Keywords: nose length, salt passage, pepper passage Pencil (1976) writes that what appears to be simple request to pass the salt has actually been the subject of consideration for literary writers and even philosophers in the English tradition. However, there are reports of psychological research conducted to test various ideas in the manner empirical. Two literature reviews (Pacanowsky, 1978;Pencil, 1976) identified a number of determinants of the salt passing: politeness of request to pass salt, number of people present, and both attitudes and race of sender and receiver. The writers recommend more research, particularly on various personal characteristics. Answering this call many years later, Minér (2015) recently proposed that salt passage was related to both sex of recipient and sex of sender, with faster response times when the request was made by a member of the opposite sex. It was speculated that this result might be mediated by physical attractiveness. If true, attractiveness theory would trump similarity theory according to which the response would be faster to a member of same sex.Purpose of present proposed experiment was to extend this discussion by incorporating attractiveness directly into the equation. Because natural physical attractiveness cannot be examined experimentally, it was approached by artificially manipulating a facial feature that has been related to attractiveness: the nose (Seriously Science, 2014) and, more specifically, nose length
We present the second expected report if proposal from Miner et al. is confirmed by case experiment. Eighty female student subjects were tested by being asked to pass salt or pepper by another student (male or female). The latter were in league with the researchers and had either the nose long or the nose normal. The subjects took longer to pass the pepper when the request was made by the confederate with the nose long, particularly if a man. The results are discussed in terms of theory and future research.
This paper contains expected abstract and report of results that would confirm Minér et al’s (2016) proposed experiment on salt passage. Eighty female undergraduates completed questionnaire with snacks and drinks, along with a salt shaker and a pepper shaker available. They were asked to pass salt or pepper by another female or a male who also worked on questionnaire, but who was in league with the experimenter. These confederates had either very long nose or normal-sized (short) nose (le nez normal). Participants complied to both requests, but were slower to respond to pepper request than to salt request and to the person with the long nose. Response times were particularly slow when the request was made by male with long nose (homme avec le nez long). Implications for similarity theory and attraction theory are discussed and suggestions are made for the future research going forward.
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