Review the material in chapter 9 on physical attractiveness.
One explanation for the what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype is that we learn it as children. For this assignment, randomly choose 10-15 children’s books. Read through the books and make notes of the physical attractiveness of the characters and their traits. Are the traits primarily positive (goodness, warmth, etc) or negative (mean, dumb, etc)?
Write a brief essay in which you explain the what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype and whether or not research suggests that it is accurate or not. Then summarize the results of your review of the children books. Include a list of the books you reviewed as well as enough detail to present the results clearly (e.g. 6 of the books had “good” people being attractive). Then comment on whether or not what you found was consistent with the what-is-beautiful is good stereotype.
Write your essay in a word processing program and save the essay to your computer as a .docx file.
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