BACK TO MAIN LISTING Franzoi, Stephen L.; Anderson, Joan; Frommelt, Stephen Individual differences in men's perceptions of and reactions to thinning
hair. Journal of Social Psychology v130, n2 (April, 1990):209 (10 pages).COPYRIGHT Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation 1990Abstract: Data obtained from 91 American male
respondents, ranging in age from 23 to 66 years of age, indicated that a personality trait, public self-consciousness, pertaining to habitual attention to and concern for public self-aspects, was
related to both perceptions of men with thinning hair and reactions to one's own thinning hair. Men with high public self-consciousness were not only more likely to believe that balding men
were less attractive, but were also more likely to believe that balding men were less desirable romantic partners for women. Furthermore, faced with their own hair loss, they expressed
greater concern and were more willing to try prescription hair remedies to grow thicker hair than were their low self-consciousness counterparts. Despite the concern that hair loss appears
to cause many men, there was no evidence that the onset of hair loss caused changes in level of public self-consciousness. |
