Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to submit your manuscript to SPPS

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Wheeler, L.
Right arrow Articles by Kim, Y.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Wheeler, L.
Right arrow Articles by Kim, Y.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

What is Beautiful is Culturally Good: The Physical Attractiveness Stereotype has Different Content in Collectivistic Cultures

Ladd Wheeler

University of Rochester, l.wheeler{at}unsw.edu.au

Youngmee Kim

University of Rochester

A total of 157 university students in Korea rated photos of other Korean students at three levels of attractiveness on dimensions included in meta-analyses of the physical attractiveness stereotype as shown in North America. Consistent with predictions based on the greater tendency in collectivistic cultures to stress harmonious relationships, participants did not perceive attractive targets as higher in potency, as North American participants do, and did perceive attractive targets as higher in integrity and in concern for others, as North American participants do not. It is argued that all cultures stereotype on the basis of physical attractiveness but that the content of the stereotype depends on cultural values. An explanation for attractiveness stereotyping is offered that is applicable to any culture.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 8, 795-800 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167297238001
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
L. A. Zebrowitz, M. Kikuchi, and J.-M. Fellous
Are Effects of Emotion Expression on Trait Impressions Mediated by Babyfaceness? Evidence From Connectionist Modeling
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, May 1, 2007; 33(5): 648 - 662.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
S. P. Pataki and M. S. Clark
Self-Presentations of Happiness: Sincere, Polite, or Cautious?
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, July 1, 2004; 30(7): 905 - 914.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologyHome page
D. R. Shaffer, N. Crepaz, and C.-R. Sun
Physical Attractiveness Stereotyping in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Similarities and Differences between Americans and Taiwanese
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, September 1, 2000; 31(5): 557 - 582.
[Abstract] [PDF]