Mother-concepts and judgments of young women's faces.

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Abstract
On a 7 point scale consisting of 20 traits expressed in everyday language, 59 judges rated their mothers and 4 groups of photographs of young women which a previous study had shown to represent extremes in ambiguity and in the degree of moral character attributed to them. The hypothesis that, on a particular trait, a judge''s mean rating of women''s faces would differ from the mean rating of the other judges in the same direction that his mother concept differs from the modal mother was confirmed. This phenomenon, called "attribution", was greatest for those photographs perceived as having motherly traits. A second hypothesis, that attribution would vary directly with the ambiguity of the photograph, was not confirmed.

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