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Recognition bias and the physical attractiveness stereotype
Author(s) -
ROHNER JEANCHRISTOPHE,
RASMUSSEN ANDERS
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2012.00939.x
Subject(s) - psychology , physical attractiveness , attractiveness , stereotype (uml) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis
Rohner, J.‐C. and Rasmussen, A. (2012). Recognition bias and the physical attractiveness stereotype. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 53, 239–246. Previous studies have found a recognition bias for information consistent with the physical attractiveness stereotype (PAS), in which participants believe that they remember that attractive individuals have positive qualities and that unattractive individuals have negative qualities, regardless of what information actually occurred. The purpose of this research was to examine whether recognition bias for PAS congruent information is replicable and invariant across a variety of conditions (i.e. generalizable). The effects of nine different moderator variables were examined in two experiments. With a few exceptions, the effect of PAS congruence on recognition bias was independent of the moderator variables. The results suggest that the tendency to believe that one remembers information consistent with the physical attractiveness stereotype is a robust phenomenon.