Person perception through facial photographs: Effects of glasses, hair, and beard on judgments of occupation and personal qualities

Hellström, Andreas; Tekle, Joseph

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2420240606

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“…Nevertheless, research on person perception has found that other physical characteristics of people may interfere with the 'What is beautiful is good' principle. Although the wearing of glasses evokes associations of intelligence, it decreases a person's attractiveness (Hellström and Tekle 1994). The latter suggests that besides the 'What is beautiful is good' principle, additional physical characteristics can influence the associations that people make based on the physical appearance of people.…”

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Newer is better! The influence of a novel appearance on the perceived performance quality of products

Mugge¹,

Schoormans²

2012

Journal of Engineering Design

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Understanding how consumers perceive products based on their appearance is of great importance to designers. In this article, we explore the level of novelty of a product appearance as a general design guideline to evoke positive associations about the product's performance quality. Novelty implies the deviation in a product appearance from the current design state. Based on the literature, we theorise that consumers associate products with a novel appearance with technological advancement and thus with a greater performance quality. Data from two studies in which participants were asked to evaluate washing machines and single-lens reflex cameras support our expectations that the level of novelty of a product appearance positively affects the perceived performance quality of the product.

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Newer is better! The influence of a novel appearance on the perceived performance quality of products

Mugge¹,

Schoormans²

2012

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…as Germany (Manz & Lueck, 1968), Japan (Saito, 1978), Sweden (Hellström & Tekle, 1994), and Austria (Leder, Forster, & Gerger, 2011). However, researchers have also reported that a target wearing eyeglasses was not always perceived positively.…”

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Effect of Wearing Eyeglasses on Judgment of Socioprofessional Group Membership

Guéguen

2015

soc behav pers

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Several researchers have reported that people photographed wearing eyeglasses were perceived as being more intelligent and honest than people who were not wearing them. In this study, conducted in France, I tried to replicate this effect using a forced-choice situation. Participants viewed a photograph of a male target wearing, or not wearing, eyeglasses and were instructed to estimate his socioprofessional group using a well-known French list. Results showed that, compared with the target without eyeglasses, the target wearing eyeglasses was more frequently associated with a higher status socioprofessional group and less often with midstatus or low-status socioprofessional groups. These results confirmed that a common cue of facial appearance is sufficient to activate a stereotype of social group membership.An obvious feature of an individual's appearance that has received little attention from social psychologists is the presence of eyeglasses. In France, nearly 71% of the population wears eyeglasses (Ipsos Healthcare, 2012), and the percentage of people wearing eyeglasses increases with age. In psychological research, it has been shown that the presence of eyeglasses influences an observer's judgment of the person wearing the eyeglasses. In the first study in which eyeglasses and social perception were examined, Thornton (1943) found that individuals photographed wearing eyeglasses were rated significantly higher in intelligence, dependability, industriousness, and honesty than the same targets when photographed without eyeglasses. This positive effect of wearing eyeglasses has been reported in several later studies conducted in countries such SOCIAL

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“…An interesting example is perceived intelligence. Four studies reported a positive effect of baldness [19,33,42,46]. Notably, three of them are of questionable ecological validity, because they relied on line drawings or schematic computer-composed faces.…”

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“…In a similar study on children's attributions of social Dermatol Psychosom 2001;2:63-71 dominance Keating and Bai [26] noted that 'the three models disproportionatelly selected by children as appearing dominant were each distinguished by … more receded hairlines' and they reasoned that 'receding hairlines may have universal value as a status cue because of an association with age'. While Keating and her colleagues were not primarily concerned with hair loss, hair was among the focal variables of Hellström and Tekle [19] who investigated the effects of glasses, hair, and beard on judgments of occupation and personal qualities. They selected 32 photographs from a large pool of birthday photos of Swedish men aged 50.…”

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confidence: 99%