Deviational Salience: Application to Short Stature and Relation to Perception of Adolescent Boys

Morrow, James R.

doi:10.2466/pms.1984.59.2.623

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“…Turner and Broad bent, the election losers, were judged less tall after the election than before, but Mulroney, the elected Prime Minister, was rated taller after the election than before. These results are consistent with other studies demonstrating distortion of height judgements resulting from the target’s perceived status or prestige (e.g., Morrow, 1984; Ward, 1967). However, previous researchers have not examined the question of whether or not the tallness of the same target can change due to variations in his position or status.…”

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“…Also, the judged size of people can be altered by psychological variables. For example, Dannenmaier & Thumin (1964) established that the authority of a person is a factor that affects how tall they are rated, and more recently, there are reports that the prestige of a man’s occupation may also be predictive of his judged height (Gillis, 1983; Hensley & Cooper, 1987; Lechelt, 1975; Morrow, 1984) 1 .…”

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The rise and fall of politicians: The judged heights of Broadbent, Mulroney and Turner before and after the 1988 Canadian federal election.

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Carment²

1992

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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The relationship between perceived status in politics and judged physical stature is investigated. Comparison of estimated heights of Canadian federal party leaders before and after the 1988 federal election indicated that the losers. Broadbent and Turner, were judged to be shorter afterwards, while the winner, Mulroney, was judged taller. Although the relationship between status and judged height has previously been demonstrated, this result indicates that it is dynamic (i.e., election outcomes alter rated tallness). A gender effect also was noted. ResumeLe but de l'etude etait d'evaluer les effets de la conformite au parti politique ct de I'appui de l'auditoirc sur les impressions des gens a I'egard des personnages politiques. Les participants a l'etude devaient lire un discours qui, leur avait-on dit, avait ete prononce par un depute du nord de l'Ontario. Les participants ctaient tous d'avis que le depute avait prononce le meme discours en favcur de l'environnement, dans lequel il recommandait que soit refusee une demandc de coupe de bois d'oeuvre dans une region fragile sur le plan ecologique. On leur avait explique que la position adoptee par le depute cadrait avec celle de son parti ou qu'elle allait a l'encontre de celle-ci. On leur avait egalement dil que l'auditoire etait soit favorable, soit hostile a la position du politicien. Les resulfats ont montre que la conformile au parti et I'appui de l'audiloire influaient sur la facpn dont les participants perccvaient le politicien. La conformity au parti influenc,ail les perceptions relatives a l'integrite du politicien: celui-ci etait considere comme davantage integre s'il prononc,ait un discours non partisan, e'est-a-dire un discours qui deviait de la position de son parti. L'appui de l'auditoire influenc,ait egalement les perceptions liees a la force du politicien: le depute qui s'adressait a un auditoire hostile etait pergu comme plus fort que celui qui s'adressait a un auditoire favorable. Les resultats obtenus s'expliquent par les processus d'inference qui interviennent dans les jugements portes sur les personnages politiques.Our perception of the size of a stimulus in the environment and its relationship to its perceived status has been studied extensively. Early experi-

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The rise and fall of politicians: The judged heights of Broadbent, Mulroney and Turner before and after the 1988 Canadian federal election.

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1992

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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“…6 No control of potential mediating variables within the sample, including timing of maturation, family size, birth order, ethnic and regional variations (see Vance et al 1994). 7 Use of subjective self-report measures (Morrow 1984). 8 Use of psychological concepts (e.g.…”

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Threats to validity in the longitudinal study of psychological effects: the case of short stature

Stratford

Mulligan

Downie

et al. 1999

Child

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In all studies of health-related problems and their effects on well-being, research design issues threaten to compromise the validity of findings. This is particularly so in a longitudinal study, essentially stemming from the tension between maintaining participant compliance and retaining investigator objectivity. Such a tension may be exacerbated where measures of dependent variables such as self-esteem are used alongside the collection of physical data which is essential to the study, as in research into the psychological effects of short stature on children and young people. In this paper one particular project, the Wessex Growth Study, is used to illustrate the common threats to validity, both internal and external, of such research, and to consider future improvements in design. The Wessex Growth Study, set up in 1986, was designed to overcome some of the methodological problems found in earlier research with short stature children. It is following the growth and psychological development through their school years of a cohort of short children (below third centile for height when first identified) and case-matched controls (10th-90th centiles) recruited at school entry (ages 5/6). Findings have generally found only small differences between short and average height children. Though these results so far have mainly been presented cross-sectionally, the young people involved are followed up at 6-monthly intervals for height and other data to be collected, and thus to some extent the study also has the advantages and problems of a longitudinal research design. Using Campbell and Stanley's criteria this article makes clear the strain on both internal and external validity in the study, but argues that these problems are to some extent inherent in all longitudinal psychological research, and are outweighed in the present research by the collection of data on short stature which would not otherwise be available. Future data collection within the study will introduce further improvements in design.

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Height differences of low and high job status, female and male corporate employees

Egolf

Corder

1991

Sex Roles

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Deviational Salience: Application to Short Stature and Relation to Perception of Adolescent Boys

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The rise and fall of politicians: The judged heights of Broadbent, Mulroney and Turner before and after the 1988 Canadian federal election.

The rise and fall of politicians: The judged heights of Broadbent, Mulroney and Turner before and after the 1988 Canadian federal election.

Threats to validity in the longitudinal study of psychological effects: the case of short stature

Height differences of low and high job status, female and male corporate employees

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