Sex Typicality and Attractiveness in Childhood and Adulthood: Assessing their Relationships from Videos

Rieger, Gerulf; Gygax, Lorenz; Linsenmeier, Joan A. W.; Siler-Knogl, Amber; Moskowitz, David; Bailey, J. Michael

doi:10.1007/s10508-009-9512-8

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“…Second, participants in the present study did not rate the victim and defendant images for attractiveness. Research has shown that gender typicality (i.e., femininity for women) affects perceptions of attractiveness (Rieger et al, 2011), and mock jurors generally perceive attractive defendants as less guilty than plain-looking defendants (Mazzella & Feingold, 1994). However, the pattern of trial rating results in the present study does not seem to be explainable as an attractiveness effect.…”

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“…However, the pattern of trial rating results in the present study does not seem to be explainable as an attractiveness effect. For instance, men's ratings of attractiveness of women are strongly influenced by gender typicality (Rieger et al, 2011), yet male participants had more sympathy for a masculine victim. Future studies should measure and covary attractiveness, so it is not confounded with masculinity or femininity.…”

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The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Legal Perceptions of Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence

Wasarhaley

Lynch

Golding

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J Interpers Violence

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The present study examined legal perceptions of lesbian intimate partner violence (IPV) in an experimental context. Undergraduate women and men from the Southeastern United States ( N = 217) read a trial summary in which the defendant was charged with physically assaulting her same-sex partner. The trial varied as to whether the victim and defendant were depicted via images as either feminine or masculine. Participants rendered verdicts and made judgments about the victim and defendant (e.g., credibility). Results indicated that the victim's and defendant's masculine or feminine appearance affected these judgments. Female participants viewed a masculine victim as more credible than a feminine victim when the defendant was masculine. When the victim was masculine, they viewed a masculine defendant as more responsible for the victim's injuries than a feminine defendant. Male participants had higher sympathy for a masculine versus feminine victim overall, but had more anger toward a masculine defendant versus a feminine defendant accused of assaulting a feminine victim. Finally, fewer participants mentioned the defendant's history of violence as a reason for a guilty of felony verdict for a feminine victim with a feminine defendant versus all other combinations of victim and defendant masculine/feminine appearance. Results are discussed in terms of gender stereotypes influencing legal decision-making in IPV cases among lesbian couples.

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The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Legal Perceptions of Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence

Wasarhaley

Lynch

Golding

et al. 2016

J Interpers Violence

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“…These men and women were originally interviewed at a Midwestern university in the USA. In total there were 185 non-explicit sexual stimuli whose attractiveness has been previously assessed (Rieger et al, 2011), and the most attractive men and women were used in the present study. The average age (SD) was 21.67 (1.72) years and 22.83 (3.83) years, respectively.…”

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Pupil Dilation to Explicit and Non-Explicit Sexual Stimuli

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Pupil dilation to explicit sexual stimuli (footage of naked and aroused men or women) can elicit sex and sexual orientation differences in sexual response. If similar patterns were replicated with non-explicit sexual stimuli (footage of dressed men and women), then pupil dilation could be indicative of automatic sexual response in fully noninvasive designs. We examined this in 325 men and women with varied sexual orientations to determine whether dilation patterns to non-explicit sexual stimuli resembled those to explicit sexual stimuli depicting the same sex or other sex. Sexual orientation differences in pupil dilation to non-explicit sexual stimuli mirrored those to explicit sexual stimuli. However, the relationship of dilation to non-explicit sexual stimuli with dilation to corresponding explicit sexual stimuli was modest, and effect magnitudes were smaller with non-explicit sexual stimuli than explicit sexual stimuli. The prediction that sexual orientation differences in pupil dilation are larger in men than in women was confirmed with explicit sexual stimuli but not with non-explicit sexual stimuli.

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“…If attractive women are seen as more feminine (Heilman & Saruwatari, 1979;Drogosz & Levy, 1995;Rieger et al, 2009), and femininity is antithetical to the masculinized ideal worker norm (Acker, 1990), attractive women may be disadvantaged in the paid labor market relative to unattractive women who are seen as less feminine. In a classic study, Heilman and Saruwatari (1979) find that sometimes "beauty is beastly" − attractiveness helped women in non-managerial positions, but actually hurt women who were managers.…”

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