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People Perception: The Effects Of Facial Piercings, Sarah Torpea
People Perception: The Effects Of Facial Piercings, Sarah Torpea
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
The research hypothesis of this study is that subjects will have a more negative perception of models with facial piercings than models without. There were 35 subjects surveyed. Each subject looked at 15 pictures of people between the ages of 19 and 21 years. There were 11 filler pictures and four model pictures in each survey. The subject answered questions that helped them to rate these people on different positive and negative scales. The models were shown with no facial piercing, a fake lip piercing, a fake nose piercing or both a fake lip and nose piercing. The same models …