Half of the women read fictitious information regarding the economic status of each of the males. It was hypothesized that unattractive men with high economic status would score highly on the attractiveness scale. Ethnicity had more of an effect on the attractiveness of the men. Thus, women express more of an interest in race than economic status when looking for a mate. This study shows that there are still racial biases in our society and that some ethnicities are still preferred over others.
Eyewitnesses can be unreliable in their testimony, if the questions are framed in a suggestive way.
The current study involved 60 students on the University of California, Riverside campus,and asked them to read a scenario about a murder, and decide how the murderer should be punished. There were two questions, one based on a more brutal depiction than the other. The independent variables were gender, ethnicity, and a question with two levels of brutality. The dependant variable was the participants rating of the severity of punishment. There was a marginal interaction of gender and ethnicity on the rating of penalization.