A meta‐analysis of experimental research on mock juror judgments was conducted to assess the effects of physical attractiveness, race, socioeconomic status (SES), and gender of both defendants and victims to test the theory that jurors use characteristics that are correlated with criminal behavior as cues to infer guilt and to recommend punishment. In general, it was advantageous for defendants to be physically attractive, female, and of high SES, although these advantages were nil for some crimes. There were no overall effects of race on mock jurors' judgments, but the effect of defendant race on punishment was strongly moderated by type of crime. Effects of victim characteristics on jurors' judgments were generally inconsequential, although defendants were at a disadvantage when the victim was female.

It has been speculated that the prevalence of eating disorders in women has risen because of increases in women's body dissatisfaction. We conducted a meta-analysis of gender differences in attractiveness and body image using 222 studies from the past 50 years. The analysis shows dramatic increases in the numbers of women among individuals who have poor body image. Moreover, these trends were found across multiple conceptualizations of body image, including self-judgments of physical attractiveness.

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Past research on wittiness has found that (a) self-ratings and peer ratings of wittiness are highly correlated, but neither type of rating is appreciably correlated with tneasured hutnor production, and {b) sociability is correlated with both types of wittitiess ratings hut not with hutnor productioti. An interpretation of these fitidings was provided by a tnultiditnensional model of wittiness that conceptualizes wittiness as a factorially cotnplex ditnension shaped by three cotnponent traits: hutnor tnotivation, humor cognition, and hutnor cotntnunication. We conducted three correlational studies to test the hypotheses, derived from the theory, that (a) wittiness ratings are influenced by hutnor tnotivation and hutnor cotntnunication, whereas hutnor production taps only hutnor cognition, and {b) sociability is positively correlated with hutnor motivation and humor communication but unrelated to humor cognition. Results were consistent across studies and generally confirmed the predictions.