Children's physical attractiveness and sex as determinants of adult punitiveness

UnHope20 · 2022-03-22T12:29:47+00:00

Investigated a child's physical attractiveness and sex as potential elicitors of differential adult punitiveness. Ss in Exps I and II were 52 white females and 44 white males, respectively. Ss in both groups viewed a videotaped interaction between the E and a child who was made to appear either physically attractive or unattractive.

Subsequently, Ss monitored what was presumably the child's performance on a picture-matching task and administered penalties to the child for incorrect responses.

The specific penalty involved taking 1-5 pennies away from the child for each error.

Results show that women behaved more leniently towards an attractive boy than towards either an attractive girl or an unattractive boy; these results were interpreted in the context of a cross-sex leniency effect mediated by a child's physical attractiveness.

Men were not influenced in administering penalties by either a child's attractiveness or sex.

It is suggested that the data reflect differences in men's and women's orientations toward children's task behavior.

2022-03-24T10:14:22+00:00

You mean the gender that molests children at a higher between the two sexes are more biased towards attractive male children? Shocker.

Title	Children's physical attractiveness and sex as determinants of adult punitiveness
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	14
Comments	6
Date	March 22, 2022 12:22 PM UTC (2 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
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