73 college students completed the 1965 Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale and two measures of self-perceived physical attractiveness from Hatfield and Sprecher. Consistent with the hypotheses, scores on both measures of attractiveness correlated with self-esteem and the 35 women had significantly lower scores than the 38 men on all three measures.
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