The Influence of Facial Attractiveness on Imitation
Abstract: People judge, evaluate, and treat attractive people better than moderately attractive or unattractive people (Langlois et al., 2000). The fact that individuals like attractive people combined with the finding that individuals imitate the ones they like, suggests that they may be more prone to imitate attractive people. The present research extends previous work on attractiveness and imitation by examining this hypothesis. Using a novel coloring procedure, we show that attractive females are imitated more than unattractive females (Experiment 1) and that attractive males are imitated more than unattractive males (Experiment 2). Importantly, this imitation occurs without any direct or anticipated contact with the target individual and without awareness of the influence of attractiveness on imitation behavior
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ; 45 (2009) 6 ; 1295-1298
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Psychologie
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2009
- Creator
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Leeuwen, Matthijs L. van
Veling, Harm
Baaren, Rick B. van
Dijksterhuis, Ap
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10.1016/j.jesp.2009.07.008
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-312073
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Leeuwen, Matthijs L. van
- Veling, Harm
- Baaren, Rick B. van
- Dijksterhuis, Ap
Time of origin
- 2009
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