Attractive but Guilty

Deliberation and the Physical Attractiveness Bias

Bibliographic Data

ID13675830
AuthorsMarc W Patry (0000-0003-3670-423X, Saint Mary's University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume102
Issue3
Pages727-733
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.102.3.727-733
PMID18763443
OpenAlexW2040334527
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited21

The current study examined the effect of jury deliberation on the tendency for mock jurors to find attractive defendants guilty less often. It was expected that there would be an interaction between group deliberation (yes or no) and defendant's appearance (plain-looking or attractive). It was hypothesized that mock jurors who did not deliberate would be more likely to find a plain-looking defendant guilty and that deliberation would mitigate this effect. The study was a 2 x 2 between-subjects factorial design. Participants were assigned randomly to one of four conditions: attractive defendant/deliberation, attractive defendant/no deliberation, plain-looking defendant/deliberation, and plain-looking defendant/no deliberation. A total of 172 undergraduates from a small, rural college in Vermont contributed to this study: mock jurors were 70 men and 52 women, ages ranged from 18 to 52 years (M=20.5, SD=4.9). The hypothesis was supported. Mock jurors who did not deliberate were more likely to find the plain-looking defendant guilty, whereas mock jurors who deliberated were more likely to find the attractive defendant guilty

Deliberation · Jury · Political science · Politics · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology

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