In today’s world, beauty has a larger impact upon people’s judgment. The research of Sigall and Ostrove in 1975 examined the exact judgment of beauty upon a person’s perception of others. Sigall and Ostrove proposed that the more beautiful an individual was, the more likely that individual would receive a higher positive bias. Their theory also proposed that a positive-affect model of attraction explains this positive bias, while the model states that beauty serves as a positive reinforcer to the perceiver (Sigall, Ostrove 1975). An individual asked to describe a criminal might describe him or her differently than when asked to describe a model. Along with the positive-affect model, the idea of social comparison impacts a person’s opinion on
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Furthermore, allowed them to generate their hypothesis of experimenting upon the correlation between crime and beauty. Sigall and Ostrove stated two hypothesis, one being that expected beautiful defendants would receive lighter punishments when their beauty was unrelated to the crime (e.g., burglary) compared to an unattractive defendant, or defendant whose beauty was unknown and the second hypothesis being that if the crime involved using one’s beauty to persuade innocent victims (e.g., swindling), they expected beautiful defendants to receive longer (more harsh) sentences than the other two defendants. (Sigall, Ostrove 1975). After they ran their experiments the results proved that Signall and Ostrove hypothesis …show more content…
Both conditions involved the participant to read a case study that that described a specific situation that a crime was committed in along with a picture of the individual whom committed it. The manipulation occurs in what picture was presented to the participant and along with what crime was presented in the story that he or she just read. Participants either received a survey with an attractive male persons (which is defined by google.com) or a survey with an unattractive male persons (which is defined by google.com). Furthermore, the participants would either receive a survey with a story that is describing a burglary crime (defined in a court of law) or a swindle crime (defined in a court of law). Everything else in the experiment was held at constant, while each survey and situation held equal importance towards the
Furthermore, allowed them to generate their hypothesis of experimenting upon the correlation between crime and beauty. Sigall and Ostrove stated two hypothesis, one being that expected beautiful defendants would receive lighter punishments when their beauty was unrelated to the crime (e.g., burglary) compared to an unattractive defendant, or defendant whose beauty was unknown and the second hypothesis being that if the crime involved using one’s beauty to persuade innocent victims (e.g., swindling), they expected beautiful defendants to receive longer (more harsh) sentences than the other two defendants. (Sigall, Ostrove 1975). After they ran their experiments the results proved that Signall and Ostrove hypothesis …show more content…
Both conditions involved the participant to read a case study that that described a specific situation that a crime was committed in along with a picture of the individual whom committed it. The manipulation occurs in what picture was presented to the participant and along with what crime was presented in the story that he or she just read. Participants either received a survey with an attractive male persons (which is defined by google.com) or a survey with an unattractive male persons (which is defined by google.com). Furthermore, the participants would either receive a survey with a story that is describing a burglary crime (defined in a court of law) or a swindle crime (defined in a court of law). Everything else in the experiment was held at constant, while each survey and situation held equal importance towards the