What Types of Attributions Do People Tend to Make About

question 227

Multiple Choice

What types of attributions do people tend to make about other people,based on attractiveness

• A) We tend to be less trusting of attractive individuals. 
• B) We equate attractiveness with positive traits. 
• C) We tend to perceive attractive people as nicer, but less competent. 
• D) We often impose a behavioural penalty on attractive individuals.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average of the squared deviations from the mean.

Mean

A measure of central tendency that is calculated by adding up all the values in a set and then dividing by the number of values.

Standard Deviation

An appraisal of the diversity or spread level exhibited by a collection of figures.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a probability distribution which is evenly shaped around the mean, indicating that occurrences of data close to the mean are more common than occurrences of data distant from the mean.