Lapish, Laurel A
45 p. ; 28 cm. -- pdf (textual record)
Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1988. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of the physical attractivess stereotypes on image ratings and choice of date setting. Sixteen male and 16 female university students, age 17-47, completed a self-monitoring scale and were asked to form impressions of six opposite-sex potential date partners who had previously been rated as either high, medium, or low in attractiveness. Results showed that people choose date settings on the basis of date attractiveness. As hypothesized, subjects chose public settings and estimated minimal loss to their image when date attractiveness was medium or high and subjects chose to avoid public settings and estimated greater loss to their image when date attractiveness was low. This is consistent with the postulation that people monitor and manipulate date settings to enhance their own image.
