In analyzing the role of the self-concept in judgements of similarity between persons, authors have made use of two notions: “the self as a habitual reference point” and “the self as a prototype”. We argue that these two notions must be kept distinct, and ...
While there has been much emphasis on the objective properties of beautiful faces, some theories of physical attractiveness implicate norm-based coding of faces and experience-dependent preferences (e.g., Langlois & Roggman, 1990; Rhodes, Jeffery, Watson, ...
This research investigated whether relative ingroup prototypicality (i.e., the tendency to perceive one’s own ingroup as more prototypical of a superordinate category than the outgroup) can result from a prototype-based versus exemplar-based mental ...
The role of sex trade in Thailand’s tourism and expatriate industry has been a common topic in professional literature and popular media for many years. With the rise of the global economy and the increasing foreigner population in Thailand, there is ...