... Abstract This study focused on the effect that being an athlete has on how attractive a person is found by those around them. 6 athletes, 3 male and 3 female (baseball/softball, lacrosse, and soccer players) were selected and photos of them either in their sports uniform or in their everyday clothing were shown to 200 random individuals in Shenendehowa High School East across a time span of one week. Those shown a photo of an athlete in their sports uniform were not also shown the photo of that same athlete in their everyday clothing, and those shown a photo of an athlete in their everyday clothing were not also shown the photo of that same athlete in their sports uniform. A hypothesis test performed on the resulting averages of the surveys handed out to participants showed no significant results. According to our findings, the fact that someone is an athlete has no effect how how attractive they are found by those around them. Page 2 Much research has been done on the topic of attractiveness and qualities that make people attractive. Attractiveness is a very broad topic that is hard to pinpoint because what is deemed “attractive” differs greatly from person to person and there is no set guidelines to follow that tell specifically what is attractive and what is not. The general topic of attractiveness allowed for many different more specific topics of research pertaining to attractiveness that could be ...
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...children are able to perceive the attractiveness of their peers. Judgments made based off of physical appearance can be seen in children as young as four years old. In a study conducted at the University of Toronto, young children were asked to nominate peers who they believed exhibited specific social behaviors such as aggressiveness, independence, friendliness, etc. The children had no prior contact with each other yet in nearly every case the less attractive children were associated with the negative attributes, while the more attractive children the positive attributes. (Dion & Berscheid, 1974) Similar to the results of the children’s peer study, teachers can also be influenced by the physical characteristics of their students. In an article published by Richard Tompkins and Myron Boor, an experiment designed to test the effects that a student’s physical appearance can have on a teacher’s perception of the student’s social and academic qualities is presented and discussed. The results of the experiment showed that the attractive students were designated as having significantly better social attributes than their unattractive counterparts. (Tompkins & Myron, 1980) This same trend can be seen in hiring professions and...
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...Resource Management Capstone Strayer University November17, 2014 Beautyism in the workplace Question1. Define “beautyism” and its potential discrimination effects on hiring in the workforce. Beautyism is a term that describes the social advantage attractive people get over less attractive attributes (Cash, 1990). It is well known that individual with physical beauty earn significant social benefit within the society and culture. Evidence proves that being beauty has a positive impact on the employer’s hiring decision, and the majority of hired candidates are more attractive (Nguyen). However, being beautiful dose not means the candidate has the needed knowledge to success neither less attractive candidates may not have the required knowledge for success. The assumption can be made and developed from the special treatment that is given to the candidate who hired because of beautyism. Beautyism is not discriminate, but the bias against less attractive applicants may lead to a particular aspect of discrimination. However, relevant federal law is Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967(ADEA). This law protects individuals who are forty years of age and over. In case of hiring a young attractive applicant over less attractive older applicant that is over forty years could indicate to a potential discrimination under ADEA. Appurtenance and weigh are not protected class under Title VII. Still, applicant with morbidly obese may apply to American with Disabilities Act (ADA)....
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...human race? Does attractiveness play a role in our daily lives? And if so does facial attractiveness have a meaning of higher intelligence? One may ask these questions when searching for that long awaited answer to why are people judged by appearance and why does society place such high value on attractiveness. Attractiveness does not make a person intelligent. Outward appearance has no effect of how ones gray matter receives and obtains information. Only the use of the mind by expansion thru education generates intelligence. So why as a society do we place such values on facial attractiveness and at what cost to our children does this label of attractiveness have. Principe and Langlois state, “Ubiquitous automatic preferences for attractive faces...
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...did not receive any award for their participation in the survey. Materials The participants were given 4 different types of surveys. The surveys varied in different levels of attractiveness between the driver and the victim. The surveys were paired with an unattractive driver and unattractive victim UU, an attractive driver and an attractive victim AA, an unattractive driver and an attractive victim UA, and an attractive driver and unattractive victim AU. The main purpose of this manipulation to the different types of surveys is to test whether or not the level of attractiveness or unattractiveness of the driver significantly impacted the perception of the participant when measuring the amount of years they chose to sentence the driver. The survey consisted of a scale that ranged from 1-9. 1 was represented as extremely favorable and 9 was represented as extremely unfavorable. Procedure In this jury study the 64 participants were given one of the four surveys as mentioned above in which they were asked to read a scenario and use their moral judgment skills in order to make a decision that could either favor the driver or the victim in this scenario based on how attractive the participant perceived them to be. Participants were asked to sentence the reckless driver of the vehicle to a specific number of years in prison. Results The two independent variables in this study are...
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...perceivably attractive name may be more apt to gain employment than one with a less desirable name (Gueguen & Pascual, 2011). Upon first impression, judgments are made about personality traits such as friendliness, attractiveness, intelligence, and honesty or even reliability (Mahrabian, 200I; Steel & Smithwick, 1989; Aura & Hess, 2008). So, what makes one name more desirable than another? Coleman, Hargreaves & Sluckin (1980) determined that one particular psychological aspect determining name likeableness is familiarity based on commonality (Karlin & Bell, 1995). Albert Mahrabian (1990) developed an approach he used to measure attractive versus unattractive name connotation (additional idea or emotion connected with a word): the Name Connotation Profile model. The four evaluation traits of the NCP model are: 1- “Successful” indicating competence, 2 – “Moral” indicating trustworthiness, 3 – “Popular/Warm/Cheerful” indicating likeableness, and 4 – “Masculine/Feminine” indicating culturally accepted norms for gender. Mahrabian (1997) also compared name attractiveness impressions between genders and found that they were comparatively consistent with cultural expectations of men and women. Men’s names were consistently associated with Masculine-Successful traits and women's names with Ethical-Caring traits. Garwood, Cox, Kaplan, Wasserman & Sulzer (1980) scrutinized name impressions of women by using photographs. They attached attractive names with...
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...Physical Appearance Impacts Social Relations, Not Personality Development Purva H. Rawal Northwestern University The author takes a fundamental physical reality, our appearance, and then attempts to see how this largely immutable inheritance shapes our personality development. The basis of the paper is that people react to another individual's physical appearance, thereby provoking a behavior in the individual that is a response to the initial reaction. In other words, the author hypothesizes that a self-fulfilling prophecy takes place. The circular phenomenon then affects development and socialization. Popkins presents his hypothesis clearly and succinctly; however, he makes a few points that deserve attention. He quickly sums up the eternally controversial nature and nurture debate in a matter of a sentence. At the same time, he quantifies the effects of nature and nurture at fifty percent. This is a presumptuous statement, as the debate continues to fuel controversy in psychological circles. For example, if nature and nurture were truly each fifty percent responsible for any psychological behavior or effect then we would have to assume that in monozygotic twin studies conducted on bipolar disorder patients, the concordance rates would be hovering closely around the fifty percent mark (Bertelsen, Harvald, & Hauge, 1977). However, as has been clearly demonstrated, the concordance rates for monozygotic twins suffering from bipolar disorder range from the high sixty percent...
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...If it is to be expected that people from the same culture are also from the same ethnic group, then it offers an insight into why this might influence on attractiveness. People tend to find people from their ethnic group more attractive that those from others (Liu, Campbell & Codnie, 1995). A large basis of this comes from the fact that people from your ethnic group is likely to share the same personality traits as some are central to your culture. These ideas have been coined ‘The Law of Attraction’, in which people are more attracted to those who share their attitudes (Clore & Byrne, 1974). This is because another person displaying the same personality trait as you, reinforces your perception of yourself. Assuming once again that Mark and Rose are from the same culture, Rose displaying traits like Mark’s will reinforce his own self-image and, in turn, he will find Rose...
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...University of petroleum and energy studies College of legal studies Dehradun Customer satisfaction at vishal mega mart Submitted to- Submitted by- Dr. M. Anil Ramesh Group no -4 COLS, UPES BBA LLB 5TH SEMSTER COLS , UPES GROUP DETAILS 1. NEHA CHADHA ROLL NO - 33 2. NISHANT CHAWDHARY ROLL NO - 34 3. PALLAVI DORA ROLL NO - 35 4. PALLAVI KHARE ROLL NO - 36 5. PALLAVI SENAPATI ROLL NO - 37 6. PARNEET SINGH ROLL NO - 38 7. POOJA MALHOTRA ROLL NO - 39 8. PRATEEK DWIVEDI ROLL NO - 40 9. PRIYANKA KUMARI ROLL NO - 43 10. PUJA KUMARI ROLL NO - 44 TOPIC SURVEY OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AT VISHAL MEGAMART ACKNOWLEDGEMENT On completion of this project, we would like to extend our thanks to Dr. M. Anil Ramesh who spared his time for us from his busy Schedule. He is the cause of successful completion of our work. We would also express gratitude to all the faculty members, who...
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...you are wondering why your business industry is not doing well. 2.1 Threat of New Entrant Accordin to theManager, the competition in an industry will be the higher, the easier it is for other companies to enter this industry. In such a situation, new entrants could change major determinants of the market environment (e.g. market shares, prices, customer loyalty) at any time. Jim Wilkinson states that, a profitable industry will attract more competitors looking to achieve profits. If it is easy for these new entrants to enter the market – if entry barriers are low – this poses a threat to the firms already competing in that market. More competition – or increased production capacity without concurrent increase in consumer demand – means less profit to go around. Jim Wilkinson also stated that there's a high threat of entry of new competitors when Profitability does not require...
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...emerging markets of Africa less risky and a more attractive proposition than western multinationals? - MSc BD7 Ping SUI Introduction: As an important global player and the main drive for economical growth, China’s massive investment in Africa has drawn the world’s attention. People can see European multinationals everywhere in Africa in the 80s, while now Chinese companies seem to take over the leading role. For example, in Angola, China helped to build the Angola Benguela railway, which is the longest railway Angola has had so far; in Nigeria, Chinese Telecom companies “Huawei” has a dominating presence both in fixed and wireless services by taking more than 90% of the market share. Not only can you find commodities made in China everywhere, but Chinese companies now build the infrastructures in many African countries too. On the contrary, the presence of European multinationals is not as strong as the Chinese ones: the amount of the funds flowing from Europe to Africa has decreased from 70% to 17% since the 70s; Western Europe’s share of overall international trade with Africa has decreased from 51% to 28%, while China has taken the place and become the biggest trading partner Africa has by surpassing America in 2009. Why are European MNCs less and less preset in Africa? What are the difficulties they have encountered? Do Chinese companies have same barriers? Why do the Chinese companies find the African market less risky and more attractive compared to the European...
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...Table of Contents 1. Background ………………………………………………………… 2 2. Objectives of the Research………………………………………… 4 3. Methadology……………………………………………….………. 5 4. Executive Summary………………………………………………. 6 5. Findings………………………………………………………….... 7 6. Conclusion and recommendations……………………………….. 11 7. Appendices…………………………………………………………… 13 Background About Apple Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. About RIM Research In Motion Limited (RIM) is a Canadian telecommunication and wireless device company best known as the developer of the BlackBerry smartphone. Target markets for the iPhone and BlackBerry are starting to overlap. The iPhone is a media consumer's dream, playing movies and music with ease. But it's not as finely tuned for the corporate user; large companies have resisted letting employees use iPhones on corporate networks The iPhone accounted for 16.1% of the market in the quarter, compared to 10.9% the same period a year ago, IDC said in releasing its quarterly report Friday. In terms of shipments, Apple shipped 8.8 million units, a 131.6% increase from the 3.8 million shipments a year ago. RIM, meanwhile, saws its share drop to 19.4% from 20.9% a year ago. Nevertheless, the company shipped 10.6 million units, a 45.2% increase...
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...the defendant was guilty or not and to rate their certainty of belief in the defendant's guilt. Jurors were more certain of the guilt of the defendant when the plaintiff was attractive than when he was unattractive. Plaintiff attractiveness significantly affected female jurors’ verdicts when the defendant was unattractive, but not when she was attractive. With male jurors, plaintiff attractiveness significantly affected their verdicts when the defendant was attractive, but not when she was unattractive. Female jurors were more likely than male jurors to conclude that sexual harassment did take place, but only when the litigants were different in attractiveness. Effects of Physical Attractiveness When Evaluating a Male Employee’s Allegation of Sexual Harassment by his Female Employer Physically attractive people are perceived in a more positive fashion than are the physically unattractive (Dion, Berscheid, & Walster, 1972). This stereotype has been shown to lead to more lenient sentencing of attractive defendants than of unattractive defendants, in both simulated and actual trials (Mazella & Feingold, 1994; Stewart, 1980). In simulated rape trials, attractive defendants are sentenced more leniently than unattractive defendants, and defendants accused of raping an unattractive victim are less...
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...faster, get paid more, and receive better treatment in life in general, becoming more successful than others. While this may be true to an extent, I do believe that the opposite is also true, attractive people are over-looked due to their outward appearance and are taken less seriously even when qualified or more qualified than another candidate. This is not to mention that life brings challenges, hurts, and un-pleasantries, regardless of how a person looks. So we cannot be too quick to say that beautiful people have better lives. In this case though, the issue is beautyism as a “free-pass” in a sense, or a way into a job position without the proper qualifications (or in spite of the proper qualifications). There has been some evidence that people who hire for job openings do give preference at times to people who are obviously physically attractive. Researchers have noted that “beautiful people” tend to charm interviewers with their looks and create a positive tone and impression based solely off of how they look. Assess the Chair’s behavior from a human resource management perspective. I feel that if people try to regulate every detail of a hiring process, including the way people look, there will be even more discrimination. When an exceptionally beautiful or attractive candidate is interviewed, managers may feel pressure not to hire them just so there are no lies or tension in the workplace as to why that person was hired. In this case, though, it is not even...
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...Matching organisation strategy to competitive conditions Involves 3 aspects- 1. Pursuing avenues that shield the firm from as many of the different competitive pressures as possible. 2. Initiating actions calculated to shift the competitive forces in the firm’s favour by altering the underlying factor driving the 5 forces. 3. Spotting attractive arenas for expansion where competitive pressure is weaker. Driving Forces Analysis is a way of understanding and accounting for change at the industry level, managers need to be able to react in a timely fashion to both positive and negative force changes within the industry. With early notice one can potentially influence the direction or scope of environmental change and improve the outlook. Driving forces analysis has three steps; i) identifying what the driving forces are, ii) assess whether the drivers are making the industry more or less attractive, and iii) determine what strategy changes are needed to prepare an organisation for the effects of the driving forces. Strategic analysis of the industry dynamics involves determining how the drivers of change are affecting industry and competitive conditions. 1. Common industry i) drivers include changes in an industry’s long-term growth rate which affect the balance between industry supply and buyer demand, entry and exit and the character and strength of competition. ii) Increasing globalization, precipitated by growing consumer demand it leads to large differences...
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