Method

Design

The experiment was a field study held in the sixth form of Alperton Community School; natural social setting which can be more realistic than laboratory experiments. It was a random sample in which a questionnaire and photographs of couples where used by the participants and then was correlation ally analysed using the independent variable; physical attractiveness and the dependent variables; ratings by the participants .

Participants

We used a large 35 year 12 psychology AS Level students from two classes of both genders and mixed ethnicity. The age group was 16-20. The experiment sample included 8 girls and 8 boys which were the first eight picked from a pile of filled in questionnaires by males and female participants.

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Apparatus

The apparatus used in were the questionnaire containing the scale, and the photographs in which the participants rated the couples, three sheets in total by which 2 sheets had separate male and females labelled 1-10 randomly and the third with the couple. (Appendices A,B, and C). The photographs are in black and white. The couples used in the photographs were 10 heterosexual couples of mixed ethnicity and varying ages. An instruction sheet was given to participants with consent in which they signed to accept the terms. They were later given a debrief of what was being tested.

Procedure

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