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What is beautiful is young: the moderating effects of age and physical attractiveness on person perception

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Creator: 

Bertolissi, Susan M

Responsibility: 
Susan M Bertolissi
Start Date: 
1994
End Date: 
1994
Date Range: 
1994 April 05
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881.71 KB of textual records (PDF)

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Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1994. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes tables. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.

Bibliographic Information
Publication: 
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:
Standard No: 
OSTMA-PSYC-Bertolissi-Susan-M-19940405
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2013-064-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Container Number: 
001
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In forming a judgment of an individual it is the visual information which is initially available to us. Thus in the absence of any other information. We may simply use the most apparent characteristics about a target to form our opinion, namely their age and appearance. The interactive effects of age and attractiveness on person perception were investigated. Equal numbers of male and female university (under age 30) and elderly (over age 60) subjects rated one of four photos where in the female model was either young and attractive, young and unattractive, elderly and attractive or elderly and unattractive on 40 personality characteristics. The age and sex of the raters contributed to attractiveness and age biases for personality characteristics: namely, sociability, promptness, creativity, materialism and forgetfulness. Facial appearance elicited different social reactions in both males/females and young/old persons.

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