225
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Hot or not: do professors perceived as physically attractive receive higher student evaluations?

      The Journal of general psychology
      Beauty, Faculty, standards, Female, Humans, Internet, Judgment, Male, Professional Competence, Social Desirability, Students, psychology, Universities

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          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.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          16475667
          10.3200/GENP.133.1.19-35

          Chemistry
          Beauty,Faculty,standards,Female,Humans,Internet,Judgment,Male,Professional Competence,Social Desirability,Students,psychology,Universities

          Comments

          Comment on this article