Sex and Status Effects on Perception of Physical Attractiveness

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Abstract
The effects of ascribed academic status, target-person's sex, and rater's sex on the perception of height, weight, and physical attractiveness, and the interrelations among these variables, were studied. College students ( N = 301; 61% females) rated a male or a female identified as possessing one of five levels of academic status. In all status conditions the male and female were seen as about equal in height, the male was estimated as heavier than the female, and at the lowest and intermediate status levels, female Ss saw the male as more attractive than the female, while the reverse tended to be the case for males' ratings of the targets. Height and weight estimates were inversely correlated for the male target, and positively related for the female target. Height estimates were positively related to attractiveness ratings for the male target, while neither height nor weight estimates predicted attractiveness ratings for the female target.

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