What Is Beautiful Is Good and More Accurately Understood: Physical Attractiveness and Accuracy in First Impressions of Personality
What Is Beautiful Is Good and More Accurately Understood: Physical Attractiveness and Accuracy in First Impressions of Personality
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797610388048
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Human, Lauren J.
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作者：
Lorenzo, Genevieve L.;Biesanz, Jeremy C.;Human, Lauren J.
美丽的人比其他人被更积极地看待，但他们是否也被更准确地看待？在循环设计中，以前不认识的人会面 3 分钟，结果与“美丽就是好”的刻板印象一致：外表越有吸引力的人被认为具有更高的规范准确性；也就是说，它们被认为更符合非常理想的规范形象。值得注意的是，外表更具吸引力的目标被认为更符合其独特的自我报告的人格特征，即具有更高的独特准确性。进一步的分析表明，积极性和准确性在某种程度上都是情人眼里出西施：感知者对目标吸引力的特殊印象也与印象的积极性和准确性正相关。总的来说，人们确实通过封面来判断一本书，但漂亮的封面会促使人们更仔细地阅读，从而使更具吸引力的人被更积极、更准确地看待。
Beautiful people are seen more positively than others, but are they also seen more accurately? In a round-robin design in which previously unacquainted individuals met for 3 min, results were consistent with the "beautiful is good" stereotype: More physically attractive individuals were viewed with greater normative accuracy; that is, they were viewed more in line with the highly desirable normative profile. Notably, more physically attractive targets were viewed more in line with their unique self-reported personality traits, that is, with greater distinctive accuracy. Further analyses revealed that both positivity and accuracy were to some extent in the eye of the beholder: Perceivers' idiosyncratic impressions of a target's attractiveness were also positively related to the positivity and accuracy of impressions. Overall, people do judge a book by its cover, but a beautiful cover prompts a closer reading, leading more physically attractive people to be seen both more positively and more accurately.