Most research on the stigmatizing effect of facial disfigurement has taken place in London, England. The present study found that irrespective of whether they were nurses or office workers, women both in Nigeria and in England rated faces that had a minor scar as less sociable, less attractive, and more dishonest than did women who saw the same stimulus faces when "normal." Few interactions were found between the variables of disfigurement, race of face, race of rater, and type of rater employment.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Berscheid, E. , & Walster, E. (1978). Interpersonal attraction. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
2.
Bull, R. (1979). The psychological effects of facial deformity. In M. Cook & G. Wilson (Eds.), Love and attraction. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
3.
Bull, R. (1982). Physical appearance and criminality. Current Psychological Reviews, 2, 269-282.
4.
Bull, R. (1983, July). How much do we take at face value?General Practitioner, p. 24.
5.
Bull, R. (1984). Society's reaction to facial deformity. In J. Graham & A. Kligman (Eds.), The psychology of cosmetic treatments. New York: Praeger.
6.
Bull, R. , & Gibson-Robinson, E. (1981). The effects of eye-gaze, style of dress and locality on the amounts of money donated to a charity. Human Relations, 10, 895-905.
7.
Bull, R. , & Rumsey, N. (in press). The social psychology of physical appearance. New York: Springer.
8.
Bull, R. , & Stevens, J. (1981). The effects of facial deformity on helping behaviour. Italian Journal of Psychology, 8, 25-33.
9.
Clifford, B. , & Bull, R. (1978). The psychology of person identification. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
10.
Cross, J. , & Cross, J. (1971). Age, sex, race and the perception of facial beauty. Developmental Psychology, 5, 433-439.
11.
Langois, J. , & Stephan, C. (1977). The effects of physical attractiveness and ethnicity on children's behavioral attributions and peer preferences. Child Development, 48, 1694-1698.
12.
Lindsay, R. , & Wells, G. (1983). What do we really know about cross-race eyewitness identification? In S. Lloyd-Bostock & B. Clifford (Eds.), Evaluating witness evidence. Chichester: Wiley.
13.
Malpass, R. , & Kravitz, J. (1969). Recognition for faces of own and other "race."Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 13, 330-335.
14.
Rumsey, N. , Bull, R., & Gahagan, D. (1982). The effect of facial disfigurement on the proxemic behavior of the general public. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 12, 137-150.
15.
Udry, J. (1977). The importance of being beautiful: A re-examination and racial comparison. American Journal of Sociology, 83, 154-160.
