Why Attractive People are Harder to Remember
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 7 (2) , 269-276
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616728172014
Abstract
People judged as highly attractive are more typical in appearance than people who are judged as less attractive. They are liked better but are harder to recognize because they are more similar to each other. This constellation of results is consistent with current views about the nature of category structure.Keywords
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