Investigated influences of physical attractiveness and self-disclosures of nonprofessional counselors in initial counseling interviews. College females saw audiotaped interviews in which an unidentified male counselor revealed no self-information or expressed demographic or personal similarity self-disclosures. Nondisclosing, unattractive…

Investigated independent and interactive effects of physical attractiveness (PA), sex, and task sex-typing on performance evaluations by 216 college women. Found that the halo effect ("beauty is talent") of PA operated when subjects evaluated both sexes, with the exception of ratings of attractive women in out-of-role ("masculine") performances.…

Female subjects were exposed to counseling interviews conducted by nonprofessional counselors who were physically anonymous or identified photographically. Counseling behaviors of unattractive counselors were judged to reflect less desirable traits and engendered weaker commitment and less optimistic expectations than did identical behaviors…