The influence of facial attractiveness on imitation |
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Authors: | Matthijs L van Leeuwen Harm Veling Rick B van Baaren Ap Dijksterhuis |
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Institution: | aRadboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;bSocial & Organizational Psychology, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | People judge, evaluate, and treat attractive people better than moderately attractive or unattractive people Langlois, J. H., Kalakanis, L., Rubenstein, A. J., Larson, A., Hallam, M., & Smoot, M. (2000). Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 390–423]. 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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Keywords: | Attractiveness Imitation Unconscious |
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