Experimental Measurement of Clothing as a Factor in Some Social Ratings of Selected American Men

Hoult, Thomas Ford

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“…The six studies in which no significant dress effects were found each incorporated extensive competition from person cues other than dress into their research designs (Buckley & Roach, 1981;Hoult, 1954;Long, 1978;Menard, 1974;Mishra, 1974;Stillman & Resnick, 1972). The research designs were rich in contextual information.…”

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In Search of a Common Thread: Classification of Information Communicated Through Dress

Damhorst

1990

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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In previous research of person perception and dress a wide array of measurement items often have been incorporated with little consideration of relationships among findings. The objective of the present qualitative meta-analysis was to find consistent themes among findings ofprevious research. The sources of data were 109 impression formation studies reported between 1943 and 1986; 869 significant findings in the studies related to dress and comprised the data. Four superordinate categories—Evaluation, Potency, Dynamism, and Quality of Thought-were tailor made to fit recurrent themes in the data and incorporated 93% of the previous findings.

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In Search of a Common Thread: Classification of Information Communicated Through Dress

Damhorst

1990

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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“…Empirical evidence of the influential role of clothing in forming impressions of individuals has been presented by several researchers (Hoult, 1954;Rosencranz, 1962;Douty, 1963;Hamid, 1968Hamid, , 1969Thomas, 1971;Powell, 1975). Hoult (1954) found that judgment of personal characteristics was related to clothing ; differences were perceived when heads were photographically interchanged on differently clothed bodies. Other research has been focused on the role of clothing in stereotyping individuals and in establishing credibility.…”

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Impact of Clothing on Impressions of Personal Characteristics and Writing Ability

Lapitsky

Smith

1981

Home Economics Research Journal

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The study was designed to determine if attractive clothing had a more positive effect than unattractive clothing on a perceiver's impressions of the personal characteristics of the writer of an essay and the qualities of the essay. Perceivers who assigned high interest/importance to clothing were expected to favorably rate both personal characteristics of an attractively dressed writer and the essay. A negative relationship was anticipated between high clothing interest/importance scores and ratings of an unattractively dressed writer and the essay. A total of 160 college coeds were divided equally among 8 experimental treatments: interest ing/uninteresting essay, two writers, and attractive/unattractive clothing. Significantly higher ratings were found with attractive clothing for the 5 personal traits and for 4 of the 5 essay qualities. Significant positive correlations occurred between high clothing interest/importance scores and ratings of personal traits and essay qualities. No significant negative correlations occurred between any evaluative ratings and high clothing interest/importance scores.

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“…It seems important, however, to consider dress and grooming as well. Certain data, for example, indicate that variations in dress can have a dramatic impact on how we rate the overall attractiveness of a given individual (Hoult, 1954).…”

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“…Although data are limited, evidence also indicates that dress and grooming have a similar effect on how we view and treat (Elder, 1969;Mills and Aronson, 1965;Sigall and Aronson, 1969;Hoult, 1954; Lefkowitz et al, 1955;Roach and Eicher, 1965; Silverman, 1945). There is some debate about whether appearance is an important variable in situations where there is a prior history of interaction between participants (Berscheid and Walster, 1974;Cavior and Dokecki, 1973;Owens and Ford, 1978;Felson and Bohrnstedt, 1979).…”

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Appearance and Delinquency

Agnew¹

2019

Appearance Bias and Crime

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This article examines the relationship between appearance and self-reported delinquency. Based on prior research, it is hypothesized that (1) unattractive individuals will be more delinquent, and (2) strain, labeling, and social control variables will mediate the relationship between appearance and deli-. Data from a national sample of adolescent boys support the first hypothesis. Only partial support is provided for the second hypothesis, with social control variables explaining from 9% to 31% of the association between appearance and delinquency. Theoretical and methodological reasons for the limited support of the second hypothesis are discussed.

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Experimental Measurement of Clothing as a Factor in Some Social Ratings of Selected American Men

Cited by 46 publications

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In Search of a Common Thread: Classification of Information Communicated Through Dress

In Search of a Common Thread: Classification of Information Communicated Through Dress

Impact of Clothing on Impressions of Personal Characteristics and Writing Ability

Appearance and Delinquency

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