Male subjects differing in attitudes toward pornography rated the attractiveness offemale models obtained from sources ranging from fashion magazines to Penthouse. The pictures were either presented intact (Study 1) or with obliterated faces (Study 2). Neutral and pro-pornography subjects used very similar rules to judge intact pictures. Both preferred nude or seminude models to clothed models, and both were more positive in their ratings than anti-pornography subjects, whose ratings for the three categories of models were essentially the same. Obliterating nude models' faces had no effect upon the pro-pornography subjects but lowered the attractiveness ratings of the other subjects. Consequently, the facial obliteration separated the pro-pornography subjects from neutrals. Anti-and pro-pornography subjects thus both differ from neutrals, but for different reasons: Anti-pornography subjects tend to respond differently from neutrals to female models in general, but pro-pornography subjects respond differently from neutrals only when judging erotic stimuli lacking facial features.Bernstein, Lin, and McClellan (1982) had subjects of different ethnicity (Taiwanese vs. white Americans in one study; black vs. white Americans in a second study)judge the attractiveness of common sets of yearbook pictures in order to study similarities and differences in their judgmental structures. They found that the groups were equally consistent in their judgments, in that intercorrelations among members of a group were similar for different groups. However, the judgments of the different groups were separable in that members of different groups tended not to correlate as highly as members of the same group. The outcome indicates the groups used different rules to' define attractiveness but were equally consistent in applying their own rules. The authors described the outcome as model "B" in contrast to three other possible models.Groups behaving in accord with Bernstein et al. 's model "A" would use equivalent rules (rules leading to the same judgments) and would apply the rules with equal consistency. The rules need not be identical. Although we know of no relevant data, it is probable that various cues to attractiveness are not independentof one another. Thus, given a suitably wide range of individual differences, it seems reasonable that judgments of a model's eyes would
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