STEREOTYPING PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS - A SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
STEREOTYPING PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS - A SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
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DOI：
10.1177/0022022190212002
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发表时间：
1990-06-01
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
DION, KL
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作者：
DION, KK;PAK, AWP;DION, KL
为什么会出现基于外表吸引力的刻板印象？我们提出了一个社会文化假设，即在集体主义而不是个人主义是主导价值体系基础的文化背景下，身体吸引力不太可能成为一个突出的评价线索。在集体主义文化中，强调群体而不是个人，这表明社会判断，如对他人的第一印象，更有可能基于与群体相关的属性（例如，家庭，在社会网络中的地位），而不是个人或个性化的元素，如身体吸引力。从这个角度来看，我们预测，大多数来自亚太地区国家和城市并在加拿大上大学的华人，如果他们报告在多伦多的华人社区中的参与度高，而不是参与度低，那么他们就不太容易受到身体吸引力的刻板印象。我们认为，高华人社区参与将加强和维持一个更集体主义的价值取向，这应该减少基于身体吸引力的刻板印象的可能性，基于上述原因的本集团成员。为了验证这一假设，受试者被要求完成一项措施，在中国社会的各个方面的参与和评级的人格特质和预期的生活结果的刺激人谁在不同的物理吸引力。我们的社会文化假设在人格特质评级（吸引力刻板印象研究的主要衡量标准）的情况下得到了支持，但在预期生活结果评级上没有得到支持。这些研究结果的影响，了解吸引力的刻板印象进行了讨论。
Why does stereotyping based on physical attractiveness occur? We proposed a sociocultural hypothesis that physical attractiveness is less likely to be a salient evaluative cue in cultural contexts where collectivism, rather than individualism, is the basis for the dominant system of values. In collectivist cultures, the group rather than the individual is stressed, suggesting that social judgments, such as first impressions of others, are more likely to be based on group-related attributes (e.g., family, position in a social network), rather than personal or individuating elements, such as physical attractiveness. From this perspective, we predicted that individuals of Chinese ethnicity, who were mostly from Asian Pacific Rim countries and cities and were attending university in Canada, would be less prone to physical attractiveness stereotyping if they reported high involvement in Toronto's Chinese community, rather than low involvement. We suggested that high Chinese community involvement would reinforce and maintain a more collectivist value orientation, which should reduce the likelihood of stereotyping of own-group members based on physical attractiveness for the reasons discussed above. To test this hypothesis, subjects were asked to complete a measure of participation in various aspects of the Chinese community and to rate the personality traits and expected life outcomes of stimulus persons who varied in physical attractiveness. Our sociocultural hypothesis was supported in the case of personality trait ratings (the principal measure in attractiveness stereotyping research), but not on expected life outcome ratings. Implications of these findings for understanding attractiveness stereotyping are discussed.