Hi all:
I taught social psychology last semester and I came across this same topic.
The book I used cited many studies that fit the question in mind.
Keating. 1985. Gender and the Physiognomy of Dominance and Attrctiveness.
Social Psychology Quorterly. 48: 61-70.
Cunningham 1986 Measuring the Physical in Physical Attractiveness: Quasi
Experiments on the Sociobiology of Female Facial Beauty. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology 59: 925-935.
Cunningham, Barbee and Pike. 1990. What do Women Want? Facial Metric
Assessment of Multiple Motives in the Perception of Male Facial Physical
Attractiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 59: 61-72.
Judith Langlois and Lori Roggman 1990. Attractive Faces are only Average
Psychological Science. 1: 115-121
Hope this helps
Arman.
From: "Roberts, Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "D. Angus Vail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]>,
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Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: Beauty Standards question
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:15:57 -0500
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of D. Angus Vail
Hi, folks. I'm hoping someone can give me a citation for a famous study
on beauty standards. It was a psychological social psych experiment
that involved showing people pairs of pictures and asking them to rank
them in terms of beauty. The study found that there are certain facial
characteristics (fullness of lips, size of eyes, lightness of skin, and
so on) the defined beauty and that those standards transcended race,
class, culture, and so on. Does anyone have a citation handy?
I don't have time to check it right now, but I THINK that was reported
in Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life by Elaine
Hatfield and Susan Sprecher (State Univ of N.Y. Press, 1986)
Keith
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