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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-2-14
pubmed:abstractText
Previous research investigating the influence of perceived physical attractiveness on student evaluations of college professors has been limited to a handful of studies. In this study, the authors used naturally occurring data obtained from the publicly available Web site www.ratemyprofessors.com. The data suggested that professors perceived as attractive received higher student evaluations when compared with those of a nonattractive control group (matched for department and gender). Results were consistent across 4 separate universities. Professors perceived as attractive received student evaluations about 0.8 of a point higher on a 5-point scale. Exploratory analyses indicated benefits of perceived attractiveness for both male and female professors. Although this study has all the limitations of naturalistic research, it adds a study with ecological validity to the limited literature.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0022-1309
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
133
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
19-35
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Hot or not: do professors perceived as physically attractive receive higher student evaluations?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Medaille College, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA. triniolo@medaille.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article