Effects of Performer Attractiveness, Stage Behavior, and Dress on Evaluation of Children's Piano Performances

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Wapnick ◽  
Jolan Kovacs Mazza ◽  
Alice Ann Darrow
Keyword(s):  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Visual Group ◽  
Grouping Students ◽  
Group Members

The purpose of this study was to determine whether selected nonmusical attributes of sixth-grade pianists would affect ratings of their performances. Twenty pianists (10 girl and 10 boys) were videotaped. They and their performances were rated by 123 musically trained evaluators. Members of the visual group viewed a videotape with the sound turned off. They rated pianists on appropriateness of dress, stage behavior, and physical attractiveness. These ratings were the basis for grouping students as being high or low on each of these three attributes. Audiovisual and audio group members rated musical performance on five test items. Results revealed support for the existence of a bias: although high pianists were rated higher than low pianists under the audio condition for all three attributes, the differences between them often were significantly greater under the audiovisual condition than under the audio-only condition. In addition, and unlike finding of earlier studies, videotaped performances were not rated higher than audiotaped performances. Also, female judges were more lenient than male judges. Finally, male and female pianists were affected differently by nonmusical attributes for about half of the test items.

Effects of Performer Attractiveness, Stage Behavior, and Dress on Violin Performance Evaluation

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Wapnick ◽  
Jolan Kovacs Mazza ◽  
Alice-Ann Darrow
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Performance Ratings ◽  
Performance Skills ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Music Faculty

The purpose of this study was to determine whether certain nonmusical attributes of violinists would affect judges' ratings of their performances. Twelve violinists (6 females and 6 males) were videotaped. They and their performances were rated by 72 graduate students and university music faculty members. Members of the visual group rated violinists by viewing a videotape with the sound turned off They rated them on appropriateness of dress, stage behavior, and physical attractiveness. Members of the audiovisual and audio groups rated musical performance on six test items and did not rate nonmusical attributes. Results from the audiovisual and audio groups revealed significant interactions on half the test items for treatment by dress and treatment by stage behavior: violinists who were high on stage behavior and on dress benefitted significantly from videotape evaluation, but violinists who were low on these attributes were not evaluated differently on audiotape versus videotape. For attractiveness, however, there was no significant interaction: more attractive violinists received higher musical performance ratings than less attractive violinists did under both the audiovisual and audio conditions. In light of earlier research, this suggests that more-attractive performers may progress to a higher level in their acquisition of performance skills than less-attractive performers.

Building blocks of bias: Gender composition predicts male and female group members’ evaluations of each other and the group

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1209-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tessa V. West ◽  
Madeline E. Heilman ◽  
Lindy Gullett ◽  
Corinne A. Moss-Racusin ◽  
Joe C. Magee
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Female Group ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Group Members

Interaction and Communication: An Examination of Gender Differences in Elementary Student Mathematics and Science Learning Using CMC

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Li
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Elementary Student ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Mathematics And Science

In this study, gender difference is explored from two perspectives: 1) student interaction patterns, and 2) communication patterns. The data used is collected from a fifth- and sixth- grade classroom in an inner city elementary school in Toronto, Ontario. There were 24 students (12 male students and 12 female students) in the class. First, the interaction patterns of students' mathematics and science learning were examined in terms of turn taking, conversation initiating, and conversation following. The results of the analysis show that male students still take more turns in this CMC setting. Male and female students are equally likely to initialize topics. Those male generated messages were significantly less likely to be followed than those female generated messages. But male and female students are just as likely to follow and support previous messages in this CMC setting. Based on these results, gender differences are then examined with respect to student communication pattern. Communication is explored in terms of language functions. The analysis of the data indicates that female students tend to request more information, but offer fewer explanations and opinions than male students do. With respect to connected initiating messages, female students are found to be similar to male students in the use of the five language functions. However, moving to conversation development, two significant gender differences are found in student use of language functions: female students tend to request more information but offer fewer explanations than male students do in those followed-up messages.

RACE AND PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS AS CRITERIA FOR WHITE SUBJECTS' DATING CHOICES

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bem. P. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
White Male ◽  
Stimulus Person ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Female Subjects

Research involving race as a criterion for various social choices indicates that race may rival attractiveness for the determination of dating choices. This possibility was explored in two experiments involving “desirability for a date” ratings of black and white stimulus persons who varied in attractiveness. Experiment 1 results indicated that white male and female subjects gave appreciable weight to race and attractiveness, but females gave race more weight than attractiveness, while attractiveness was given more weight than race by males. The interaction between race and attractiveness had approximately the same form for males and females: attractive black stimulus persons were lumped together with unattractive stimulus persons.Female subjects in Experiment 2, who were informed about an opportunity to date a stimulus person of their choice before seeing slides of stimulus persons, tended to discount attractiveness as a criterion for choices. None of these subjects were willing to accept an actual date. It was noted that race may be a stronger rival to attractiveness relative to the more abstract factors with which attractiveness has been compared, because race, like attractiveness, is highly concrete and visible.

Social Reactions to Attempted Suicide: The Effects of Gender and Physical Attractiveness

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna L. Vanwinkle ◽  
Lawrence G. Calhoun ◽  
Arnie Cann ◽  
Richard Tedeschi
Keyword(s):  
Case History ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Suicide Attempter ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Attractive Female ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
Univariate Analyses ◽  
Attractive Male

The effects of gender of subject, gender of suicide attempter, and physical attractiveness of attempter on justification, emotional adjustment, and liking were investigated in this study. One hundred forty-eight male and female undergraduates (average age = 21.93 years) read a brief case history describing an individual who attempted suicide one week ago. Two-thirds of the subjects also received a photograPh. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of six groups: attractive female attempter, unattractive female attempter, no photograph female attempter, attractive male attempter, unattractive male attempter, and no photograph male attempter. Ratings of justification, emotional adjustment, and liking were measured using 7-point Likert-type questions. The MANOVA revealed significant main effects of gender of subject and physical attractiveness. Univariate analyses of these effects showed that females rated attempters significantly more justified than males and that attractive attempters were liked significantly more than unattractive and no photograph attempters.

scholarly journals Readability Level of Arabic Language Textbook of the Sixth Grade in the State of Kuwait

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Shaye Al Shaye ◽  
Mohamed Doheim Al Dhefeiri
Keyword(s):  
Relative Weight ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
The State ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Moderate Degree ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The State Of Kuwait ◽  
Cloze Test

The current study aimed to identify the level of readability of the sixth-grade Arabic language textbooks in the State of Kuwait from the viewpoint of Arabic language teachers, and in light of the students 'performance in reading the Cloze test of these books. For the current study, a tool was prepared that was applied to a sample of (200) male and female Arabic language teachers in the middle stage. The reading Close test was applied to a sample of (320) male and female sixth-grade students. The results of the study revealed that teachers' estimates of the level of readability of reading textbooks prescribed in the book entitled "My Arabic language" were of a moderate degree, with relative weight (57.8%). The results also showed that most of the students were distributed within the depressive level of readability, with a percent of (76.9%) and (16.6%) within the educational level, and (6.5%) within the independent level. It is also showed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean individuals of the sample of both sexes on the reading Cloze test in favor of females and that there were no differences based on the educational Zone. In light of the study results, a set of recommendations was presented.   Received: 18 March 2021 / Accepted: 5 June 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021

scholarly journals ANALISIS BUTIR TRY OUT UJIAN NASIONAL MATEMATIKA SEKOLAH DASAR DI DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA TAHUN 2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Martalia Ardiyaningrum ◽  
Cahya Kusuma ◽  
Trisniawati Trisniawati
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Simulation Test ◽  
Test Items ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Level Of Difficulty ◽  
Mathematics Course

This study aims at studying the national examination conducted by “Phytagoras” Mathematics Course. This research is a descriptive study conducted to test the national examination of elementary school, specifically in its mathematics subject. The data used in this research is the results of Indonesian national exam simulation test conducted by “Phytagoras” mathematics course in 2017. The data of this study are obtained from 919 sixth-grade students who had accomplished mathematical tutoring in “Phytagoras” mathematics course. The results of the data analysis showed that there are 5 out of 40 mathematical test items that need to be evaluated due to its level of difficulty. Those five items are suggested to be reformatted and revised for the improvements of the next national exam simulation test.

scholarly journals Incels, in-groups, and ideologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-178
Author(s):  
Frazer Heritage ◽  
Veronika Koller
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Keyword Analysis ◽  
Word Frequencies

Abstract We present a study of the online forum Reddit, specifically a sub-forum for (typically heterosexual) men who identify as involuntary celibates or incels. Incels are an online imagined community/community of practice who wish to, but do not, have sexual relations with women. Owing to this identity, they view themselves as non-normative within broader society and see women and societal standards of masculinity as the cause of their problems. In this paper, we take a small corpus of 67,000 words generated from 50 threads created, and commented on, by incels. We analyse keywords, word frequencies, and concordance lines to explore the representation of gendered social actors. Keyword analysis reveals that references to gendered social actors are particularly salient within this community, leading to an analysis of all such social actors in the corpus. The findings suggest that incels position different groups of men in a hierarchy in which conventionally attractive men occupy the top position. Notably, we find that female social actors are not placed in a similar hierarchy. An additional appraisal analysis of the most frequently occurring male and female social actors shows that men are judged as incapacitated while women are seen as immoral, dishonest and capable of hurting men. Members of the online community also seem preoccupied with physical attractiveness. The study opens up a number of avenues for future research, especially into the complexities with which members of non-normative heterosexual groups simultaneously orient to and reject social norms.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document