Experiment on Sound Symbolism
You will be asked to read and summarize a portion of a recent article about sound symbolism.
There is one very brief article for you to read:
Perfors, A. (2004). What's in a Name? The effect of sound symbolism on perception of facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 26. Retrieved from https://escholarship(dot)org/uc/item/9bq5v5c7
Pranav's comment: this is a very brief (1 page) article about an experiment examining whether the names assigned to pictures of people affected judgments of attractiveness.
After reading this article, please write a short (roughly 100 word) response that explains the following:
1) what was the research question of the experiment?
2) how did the researcher(s) go about testing it?
3) what did they say their results showed?
4) what do you think about the result?
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What was the research question of the experiment?
The experiment employed the research question, is sound symbolism a psychologically real and robust phenomenon or not?
How did the researcher go about testing it?
The researcher took twenty-four frontal photo shots of men and women and posted them on the website hotornot.com, each time having different gender connotations, type of vowel, and consonant type. The participants rated from one to ten for attractiveness.
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