hmmm, maybe r1x is right....
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11 Aug 2009, 2:39 pm
r1x mentioned in some post that people get influenced by their friends about how attractive this girl or this guy is, and the decision of whether to accept or to decline the asker (ie. a guy asking out a girl) is influenced by how likely the friends would approve this asker.
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“The impact of private taste on judgments is reflected in the variance component for the interaction between faces and judges. To see why, imagine that the faces of Peter, Paul, and Mary receive face scores of 3, 4, and 5, respectively. Assume that Anne repeatedly rates these faces with 3, 4, and 7, respectively. One concludes that Anne’s preferences are somewhat different from the average in that she regards Mary as more attractive than the average judge does. Thus, an interaction effect between judge and face indicates private taste (Kenny, 1994).”
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As the black bars in the above figure illustrate, Hönekopp’s data show that shared taste and private taste explain about the same amount of variance. That is, the idiosyncratic preferences of the raters were as important as the characteristics of the faces themselves in evaluating relative attractiveness – when all of the faces in the stimulus set were included. When the range of attractiveness is reduced (the homogenous faces), private taste explains most of the variance. When the range of attractiveness is emphasized using the first and fourth quartile faces (the heterogenous faces), private taste becomes less influential.
To illustrate, imagine asking subjects to rate the attractiveness of photos of Matt Damon, George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey, Jude Law, and Johnny Depp. Given that each of these celebrities has been a recent recipient of People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” title, it is likely that rater idiosyncratic taste will play a far more significant role in relative ratings than any of the differing qualities of the faces themselves. This thought experiment illustrates what happens when the range of attractiveness is restricted: idiosyncratic preferences in the raters themselves will become the most significant source of the variance in the attractiveness ratings. To illustrate the other extreme, imagine asking subjects to rate the attractiveness of the photos at this web site. This small sample set, with such extreme differences in facial characteristics, will likely produce very little evidence of private taste. [For a brief presentation of some research using this set of photographs and reaching this conclusion, see this video.
To illustrate, imagine asking subjects to rate the attractiveness of photos of Matt Damon, George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey, Jude Law, and Johnny Depp. Given that each of these celebrities has been a recent recipient of People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” title, it is likely that rater idiosyncratic taste will play a far more significant role in relative ratings than any of the differing qualities of the faces themselves. This thought experiment illustrates what happens when the range of attractiveness is restricted: idiosyncratic preferences in the raters themselves will become the most significant source of the variance in the attractiveness ratings. To illustrate the other extreme, imagine asking subjects to rate the attractiveness of the photos at this web site. This small sample set, with such extreme differences in facial characteristics, will likely produce very little evidence of private taste. [For a brief presentation of some research using this set of photographs and reaching this conclusion, see this video.
http://psychologyofbeauty.wordpress.com ... thodology/
interesting ,no?
