Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life

by Susan Sprecher and Elaine Hatfield

Book Overview

Elaine Hatfield, Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii, is the most frequently quoted social psychologist in the world. Susan Sprecher is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887061249
• ISBN13: 9780887061240
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Classical social experiments of human appearance

I first read Elaine Hatfield's (et al.) book after being referred to it by a nationally used Intro to Psychology Textbook. Her book reveals, through objective experiments, how the human race interprets appearances and judges people based on looks. Quite intriguing. One of the classical experiments discussed involved comparing pictures of similar-looking men with women of various attractiveness levels. Apparently people think higher of a man that is alone than one with an unattractive female. Interesting.