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Facial Attractiveness and Helping Behavior Attributions: Attractive and Unattractive Persons Are Perceived of as Unhelpful

Sacco, Donald F., Jr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271776805

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Psychology.
Three studies explored the relationship between facial attractiveness and attributions of prosocial behavior. On a between-subjects (Study 1) and within-subjects (Study 2) basis, participants were shown images of targets possessing low, average and high facial attractiveness and were asked to indicate their impressions of how helpful these targets should be as well as how helpful these targets actually are. In both studies, attractive and unattractive targets were seen as actually engaging is less helping behavior than targets of average attractiveness; participants also perceived a consistent gap in unattractive and attractive targets’ actual helping behavior compared to how much they should help. Study 3 extended these findings by indicating that attractive and average targets are seen as more capable of helping than unattractive targets whereas both attractive and unattractive targets are seen as less willing to help than targets of neutral attractiveness. Perceptions of both attractive and unattractive targets’ willingness to help mediated perceptions of how much these targets actually help. Perceptions of unattractive targets willingness to help also mediated perceptions of how much these targets should help. Finally, perceptions of unattractive targets’ capability of helping mediated perceptions of how much they actually help and should help.
Kurt Hugenberg, PhD (Committee Chair)
Heather Claypool, PhD (Committee Member)
Amanda Diekman, PhD (Committee Member)
Timothy Heath, PhD (Committee Member)
Gary Stasser, PhD (Committee Member)
32 p.
Behaviorial Sciences; Experiments; Psychology; Social Psychology
physical attractiveness; face perception; prosocial behavior; stereotyping; attribution theory

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  • Sacco, Jr., D. F. (2010). Facial Attractiveness and Helping Behavior Attributions: Attractive and Unattractive Persons Are Perceived of as Unhelpful [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271776805

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sacco, Jr., Donald. Facial Attractiveness and Helping Behavior Attributions: Attractive and Unattractive Persons Are Perceived of as Unhelpful. 2010. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271776805.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sacco, Jr., Donald. "Facial Attractiveness and Helping Behavior Attributions: Attractive and Unattractive Persons Are Perceived of as Unhelpful." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1271776805

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