Journal article
Sex Differences in Judgments of Physical Attractiveness: A Social Relations Analysis
Personality & social psychology bulletin, Vol.29(3), pp.325-335
03/2003
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/104917
PMID: 15273010
Abstract
Men and women rated the physical attractiveness of other men and women who were sitting nearby and were rated by them in return. They also provided meta-perceptions of how they thought those others rated them. Attractiveness ratings were partly a function of both the target being rated and the perceiver providing the ratings regardless of the sex of the perceiver or target, but the highest levels of consensus occurred when men judged the attractiveness of women and the highest levels of idiosyncrasy occurred when men rated other men. Meta-perceptions were also idiosyncratic; some believed that they were consistently considered attractive, whereas others thought they were seen as unattractive. People were aware of what others thought of them and, in particular, women’s meta-perceptions were highly related to men’s judgments of them. People agree about others’ attractiveness, and those who are attractive to others know they are pretty or handsome.
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- Title
- Sex Differences in Judgments of Physical Attractiveness: A Social Relations Analysis
- Creators
- David K MarcusRowland S Miller - Sam Houston State University
- Publication Details
- Personality & social psychology bulletin, Vol.29(3), pp.325-335
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- Sage Publications; Thousand Oaks, CA
- Identifiers
- 99900546603701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article