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Recognition bias and the physical attractiveness stereotype.

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Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

239-246

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volume

53

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • Attitude
  • stereotype
  • memory
  • recognition-bias

Status

Published

Research group

  • Associative Learning

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9450