Sensitivity to “Bad Genes” and the Anomalous Face Overgeneralization Effect: Cue Validity, Cue Utilization, and Accuracy in Judging Intelligence and Health

By L. Zebrowitz, Gillian Rhodes. 2004

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Gender Studies, Marketing

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Body weight, not facial width-to-height ratio, predicts aggression in pro hockey players (2012, background): “For example, Zebrowitz and Rhodes (2004) showed that participants’ ratings of perceived intelligence predicted measured intelligence but only for individuals below the median in attractiveness; they found similar results for perceptions of health.”
Gender Differences for Specific Body Regions When Looking at Men and Women (2008, background): “Yet Zebrowitz and Rhodes (2004) note that facial attractiveness alone seems to be reliably related to health only in the lower half of the attractiveness distribution in males and females.”
Social Psychological Face Perception: Why Appearance Matters. (2008, unknown): “They are perceived as more outgoing, socially competent and powerful, sexually responsive, intelligent, and healthy (Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, & Longo, 1991; Feingold, 1992; Langlois et al., 2000; Zebrowitz, Hall, Murphy, & Rhodes, 2002; Zebrowitz & Rhodes, 2004).”
Fooled by first impressions? Reexamining the diagnostic value of appearance-based inferences (2010, background): “This might reflect previous evidence that people can (under some circumstances) accurately judge intelligence from facial cues (Zebrowitz, Hall, Murphy, & Rhodes, 2002; Zebrowitz & Rhodes, 2004).”
The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty. (2006, background): “However, a recent reanalysis of these data found a moderate association between attractiveness at 17 and later (adult) health for faces below the median in attractiveness (Zebrowitz & Rhodes 2004).”
Male facial masculinity influences attributions of personality and reproductive strategy (2006, background): “Zebrowitz and Rhodes (2004) note that moderate and high degrees of masculinity may indicate better intelligence and health than low masculinity, but high masculinity may not actually indicate an advantage over moderate masculinity.”
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS (2005, background): “Consistent with this interpretation, two studies have found associations between male facial masculinity and reported health (Rhodes et al. 2003, lower half of the distribution only; Thornhill & Gangestad (2005), Zebrowitz & Rhodes 2004).”
First Impressions From Faces Among U.S. and Culturally Isolated Tsimane’ People in the Bolivian Rainforest (2012, background): “…and what is ugly is bad” holds true even among people residing in a remote Bolivian rainforest, consistent with the anomalous face overgeneralization hypothesis that predicts culturally universal responses to variations in facial attractiveness (Zebrowitz et al., 2003; Zebrowitz & Rhodes, 2004).”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “Many such dimensions will be used to assess the quality of potential mates for both males and females (B. C. Jones et al., 2001; Thornhill & Gangestad, 2006; Zebrowitz & Rhodes, 2004).”