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RE: The Halo Effect, ID Deception & Plagiarism
I love this, and it makes me more cautious about navigating Steemit. Have to be careful about clicking on links, etc.
I wonder, have there been studies about which gender is more susceptible to the halo effect? Are the targets more likely to be men or women? My gut instinct is that men are more vulnerable to this scheme, but that may just be personal bias, reinforced by stereotype. After all, there seems to be a market for mail brides but not so much for mail bridegrooms. A good read.
Thats a great question, here are some answers regarding that:
"Gender differences
A study by Kaplan (1978) yielded much of the same results as are seen in other studies focusing on the halo effect—attractive individuals were rated more highly in qualities such as creativity, intelligence, and sensitivity than unattractive individuals. However, in addition to these results Kaplan found that some women were influenced by the halo effect on attractiveness only when presented with members of the opposite sex. When presented with an attractive member of the same sex, the effect was attenuated for some women. Dermer & Thiel (1975) continue this line of research, going on to demonstrate that jealousy of an attractive individual has slight effect in evaluation of that person. Their work shows this to be more prevalent among females than males, with some females being less influenced by the halo effect. Later research by Moore, Filippou, & Perrett (2011)[20] was able to control for attractiveness in composite photographs of females who were perceived to be of high or low intelligence, while showing that the attractiveness halo effect was seen in high intelligent male composite faces by heterosexual residents of the UK. Either the halo effect is negated by feelings of jealousy in women[22] or the halo effect is lessened when women are looking at same sex individuals[23] or the attractiveness halo effect can be controlled for in women[20] it appears that there is a difference in affect produced by the attractiveness halo effect at least between binary genders. "
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