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Attractiveness and evaluation practical.
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ATTRACTIVENESS AND EVALUATION PRACTICAL ABSTRACT Many studies from the 1960s and 1970s found that having physical attractiveness also bestows upon you a positive halo effect. This study intends to discover if these stereotypes and schemas are still present in today's society. There are two hypotheses. The first being that the more physically attractive a person is the higher the IQ for them will be predicted. The second hypothesis is that the more attractive they are physically the more friends they are predicted to have. The study went about testing the hypotheses by showing 10 black and white slides of people to 10 male and 10 female undergraduates. Then the participants were asked to rate the physical attractiveness of each photo, the IQ of the photo and the number of close friends they would predict the person in the photo had. Correlations were made to analyse the data. These found that there was...
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