Physical Attractiveness - a Source of Teacher Bias?

Physical Attractiveness - a Source of Teacher Bias?

Reducing Physical-attractiveness bias in hiring decisions: An experimental investigation

Attractive individuals are evaluated and treated more positively than unattractive individuals (Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, & Longo, 1991; Feingold, 1992; Langlois et al., 2000). In the present research, we try to find ways to reduce attractiveness bias in hiring decisions. Experiment 1 examined the influence of warning participants about bias. Warnings were ineffective, however: Even warned par...

Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher Evaluations From Thin Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and Physical Attractiveness

The accuracy of strangers' consensual judgments of personality based on "thin slices" of targets' nonverbal behavior were examined in relation to an ecologically valid criterion variable. In the 1st study, consensual judgments of college teachers' molar nonverbal behavior based on very brief (under 30 s) silent video clips significantly predicted global end-of-semester student evaluations of te...

Intelligence and physical attractiveness

Article history: Received 5 June 2010 Received in revised form 11 November 2010 Accepted 14 November 2010 Available online 24 December 2010 This brief research note aims to estimate the magnitude of the association between general intelligence and physical attractiveness with large nationally representative samples from two nations. In the United Kingdom, attractive children are more intelligen...

Antipsychotics and physical attractiveness.

BACKGROUND Antipsychotics are effective in treating the symptoms of schizophrenia, but they may induce adverse effects, some of which-those that impact negatively on physical appearance-have not been sufficiently discussed in the psychiatric literature. AIM Through a narrative review, to catalog antipsychotic side effects that interfere with physical attractiveness and to suggest ways of addr...