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Relation between Physical Attractiveness and Grooming"
Marečková, Jana ; Rubešová, Anna (advisor) ; Pivoňková, Věra (referee)
Physical attractiveness plays an important role in many aspects of our lives. The aim of this study is to reveal what is the correlation between rating of physical attractiveness made by oneself and by others, and personal grooming. The relation between self-rating of overall physical attractiveness and its rating made by others (using photographs) and connection between these ratings and personal grooming were examined on the basis of a heterogeneous sample of 43 women and 32 men. These ratings of overall attractiveness, face attractiveness and body attractiveness were provided by 34 judges (each time 17 males and 17 females) different for every variable. Our results showed a positive relation between participant's self-rating of overall physical attractiveness and its rating made by others. Further analyses proved that rating of overall physical attractiveness was positively associated both with facial and body attractiveness for both sexes. With regard to women, a correlation between self-rating of physical attractiveness and reduced care of body shape and eyebrow was revealed; regarding men, self-rating correlated with reduced care of body shape, hair, fingernails and less care for outfit was shown. Concerning female participants, no relation between rating of overall physical attractiveness...
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Relation between Physical Attractiveness and Grooming"
Marečková, Jana ; Rubešová, Anna (advisor) ; Pivoňková, Věra (referee)
Physical attractiveness plays an important role in many aspects of our lives. The aim of this study is to reveal what is the correlation between rating of physical attractiveness made by oneself and by others, and personal grooming. The relation between self-rating of overall physical attractiveness and its rating made by others (using photographs) and connection between these ratings and personal grooming were examined on the basis of a heterogeneous sample of 43 women and 32 men. These ratings of overall attractiveness, face attractiveness and body attractiveness were provided by 34 judges (each time 17 males and 17 females) different for every variable. Our results showed a positive relation between participant's self-rating of overall physical attractiveness and its rating made by others. Further analyses proved that rating of overall physical attractiveness was positively associated both with facial and body attractiveness for both sexes. With regard to women, a correlation between self-rating of physical attractiveness and reduced care of body shape and eyebrow was revealed; regarding men, self-rating correlated with reduced care of body shape, hair, fingernails and less care for outfit was shown. Concerning female participants, no relation between rating of overall physical attractiveness...
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Nonverbal behaviour of elderly people during animal-assisted activity
Lupienská, Natálie ; Rubešová, Anna (advisor) ; Lindová, Jitka (referee)
Bc. Natálie Lupienská: Nonverbal behaviour of elderly people during animal-assisted activity Abstract The aim of the study is to compare nonverbal behaviour of elderly people in three studied interactions: 1) with a therapeutic animal, specifically guinea-pig (Cavia aperea porcellus), 2) with a plush guinea-pig toy and 3) with an ordinary single-coloured cup. Twenty one elderly people (3 men and 18 women, average age of 85 years, SD 7,95 y) participated in the study. All data used for the purpose of the study (video recordings) were collected in a Prague residential house for elderly people in summer 2009. An ethogram composed of sixty elements was prepared. Consequently the Interact software was used for coding of those elements. The inter-subject comparison demonstrated that a guinea-pig significantly enhances an interest in an object and tactile behaviour of observed people. There was no significant difference between the three examined situations in terms of respondent's communication with a therapist, facial expressions or the overall activity. Keywords: nonverbal behaviour, animal-assisted activity, elderly, guinea-pig
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Social aspects of facial appearance
Rubešová, Anna ; Havlíček, Jan (advisor) ; Smékal, Vladimír (referee) ; Blažek, Vladimír (referee)
The dissertation thesis consists of an introductory analysis of literature and further of manuscripts, both published and submitted for publication. The analysis of literature firstly describes the theme of facial perception from the view of neuropsychology. It also discusses the question of stereotypical judgment of others according to the facial appearance and the theme of halo effect, as well as the possibility of accuracy in judging others according to their face. Further, it deals with the influence of facial appearance in a numerous social contexts (e.g. in one's career, at school, in politics). The second part of the thesis includes two reviews concerning mainly the accuracy of personality judgment on the basis of facial appearance and various aspects of facial attractiveness. Next, there are four research studies included in the thesis, which were aimed at finding the level of accuracy in judgments of Cattell's personality factors on the basis of facial appearance of an unknown individual. The results suggest that a mere facial appearance contains some relevant information regarding personality of an individual and that the perceiver is able to estimate some personality traits (mainly Social boldness, Liveliness and Warmth) relatively accurately on the basis of both, an individual picture and a...
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