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Female Students' Clothing Styles And Their Effect On Perceived Intelligence By College Professors, Dea Kamberaj
Female Students' Clothing Styles And Their Effect On Perceived Intelligence By College Professors, Dea Kamberaj
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This study was conducted to look at the contemporary effects of students' clothing styles on college professors' perceptions about the students' intelligence, attractiveness, and sociability. The effects of three dress conditions, formal attire, provocative attire, and casual attire, were studied on professors on a southeastern university. The hypothesis stated that a student wearing formal attire would receive the highest overall rating and the highest rating in intelligence. The casual attire condition would receive the lowest rating in intelligence and overall rating. The rating of the provocative clothing condition is predicted to change based on the sex of the rater. One …