Perceived Attractiveness as a Function of Active vs Passive Support for the Feminist Movement

Johnson, Ronald W.; Holborn, Stephen W.; Turcotte, Shelly J.

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“…Data using a direct measure of subjects' perceptions of attractiveness add validity to the findings of earlier work (Beaman & Ullrich, 1978;Johnson et al, 1978Johnson et al, , 1979Klentz, et al, 1983;Unger et al, 1982) showing either no differences or results favouring supporters of the movement. Not all previous research has found significant correlations between the raters' attitudes and the attractiveness ratings of the photos.…”

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“…In addition, the attitude measures used have often tapped broad issues concerning the role of women in society instead of the more focused issue of the women's movement itself; hence, correlations in these cases would be expected to be attenuated compared to those that may be obtained with more specific measures (Azjen & Fishbein, 1980). However, significant correlations between .20 and .49 have been reported (Johnson et al, 1978(Johnson et al, , 1979Klentz et al, 1983) supporting the attitude similarity mediation explanation.…”

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“…Johnson, Doiron, Brooks, and Dickinson (1978) found males to show a bias against supporters while females showed a bias in favour of supporters. Later Johnson, Holborn, and Turcotte (1979) found both sexes favoured supporters of the movement. More recently Unger, Hilderbrand, and Madar (1982) found no differences in physical attractiveness between feminists The preparation of this article was greatly facilitated by support from the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University while the senior author was a visiting professor there.…”

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A direct test of and an alternative explanation for judgments of attractiveness of supporters of the women's movement.

Beaman¹,

Klentz²,

Conrad³

1984

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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Investigations of the possible bias against women who support the women's movement have used a paradigm requiring subjects to sort photographs into two categories. Based on these sortings, differential judgments of physical attractiveness were inferred without having the subjects who performed the sorting actually rate the photos. Such procedures can never rule out alternative explanations for the results. To provide increased confidence in the previous findings, the present study had subjects rate photos thought to depict persons with varying positions toward the movement. Additionally, correlational data were gathered to test a more parsimonious explanation, that of an attitude similarity mediated error (AS-ME) which can subsume the previous mixed findings. The results replicated the earlier findings indicating no general bias against supporters and, furthermore, showed that the attractiveness ratings were related to attitudes held by the subjects. It was concluded that persons erroneously perceive similar others to be more attractive than dissimilar others, rather than perceive supporters in general to be less attractive.

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A direct test of and an alternative explanation for judgments of attractiveness of supporters of the women's movement.

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Conrad³

1984

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“…Nonetheless, there have been no reports of individual differences in this tendency. Even attempts at correlating attractiveness stereotyping with attitudes toward the stereotyped groups have met with mixed results (Beaman, Klentz & Conrad, 1984; Dew, in press; Goldberg, Gottesdiener & Abramson, 1975; Johnson, Holborn & Turcotte, 1979).…”

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Correlates of the tendency toward physical attractiveness stereotyping: Individual differences in cognitive structure and political party affiliation.

Johnson¹

1985

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Twenty active supporters of each of Canada's three major political parties attempted to identify, from photographs previously scaled for physical attractiveness, supporters of their own and of the other two parties. Each subject, also completed a modified version of Scott, Osgood, and Peterson's (1979) complete battery of cognitive structure tests. Liberals and Progressive Conservatives identified more attractive photos as being of supporters of their own parties. New Democrats selected less attractive photos as being of supporters of their party. In-group bias in photo-sorting correlated with Affective-Evaluative Consistency, Affective Balance, and Dimensionality for Progressive Conservative supporters. Out-group bias correlated with Affective Balance for New Democratic Party supporters. New Democrats had lower Affective Balance scores than Liberals, and lower Image Comparability scores than Liberals or Progressive Conservatives.Parallel with the development of interest in the cognitive approach to the study of stereotyping (Hamilton, 1979) has been the reporting of a pervasive tendency to attribute physical attractiveness or unattractiveness to a wide variety of social groups (Hannson & Duffield, 1976;Johnson, Doiron, Brooks & Dickinson, 1978;Jones, Hannson, & Phillips, 1978). Nonetheless, there have been no reports of individual differences in this tendency. Even attempts at correlating attractiveness stereotyping with attitudes toward the stereotyped groups have met with mixed results (

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The effect of attitudes on inferences of homosexuality and perceived physical attractiveness in women

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1985

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Perceived Attractiveness as a Function of Active vs Passive Support for the Feminist Movement

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

A direct test of and an alternative explanation for judgments of attractiveness of supporters of the women's movement.

A direct test of and an alternative explanation for judgments of attractiveness of supporters of the women's movement.

Correlates of the tendency toward physical attractiveness stereotyping: Individual differences in cognitive structure and political party affiliation.

The effect of attitudes on inferences of homosexuality and perceived physical attractiveness in women

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