Appearance DOES Matter

By L. Zebrowitz, J. Montepare. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing, Museology

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No Place for a Woman: Evidence for Gender Bias in Evaluations of Presidential Candidates (2007, background): “Moreover, candidate competence in general was not examined in this study, which is an important predictor of candidate success (Carli & Eagly, 1999; Zebrowitz & Montepare, 2005; see also Funk, 1997 for review).”
The Positive Consequences of Negative Stereotypes (2014, background): “First, the researchers found that both gay white photographs and straight black photographs received lower ratings on likeability than the straight white photographs.”
Faces of politicians: Babyfacedness predicts inferred competence but not electoral success (2009, unknown): “HAL Id: hal-00709550 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00709550 Submitted on 19 Jun 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not.”
The dynamics of warmth and competence judgments, and their outcomes in organizations (2011, background): “…has shown that ―babyfaceness,‖ which is linked to perceived trustworthiness, innocence, and warmth (for a review, see Zebrowitz, 1997), is a liability for White people striving to attain high positions of leadership in government (Zebrowitz & Montepare, 2005) and industry (Rule & Ambady, 2008).”
She’s Got the Look: Inferences from Female Chief Executive Officers’ Faces Predict their Success (2009, background): “Furthermore, dominance and facial maturity are often highly correlated (Zebrowitz 1997) and may therefore tap a common underlying trait (Rule and Ambady 2008; see also Zebrowitz and Montepare 2005).”
Elected in 100 milliseconds: Appearance-Based Trait Inferences and Voting (2010, methodology): “We collected new judgments of facial maturity because, as Zebrowitz and Montepare (2005) have argued, appearance-based competence judgments (and their relationship to voting decisions) may be driven by facial immaturity or babyfaced appearance.”