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Published in final edited form as: J Gen Psychol. 2019 Nov 22;147(4):398–413. doi: 10.1080/00221309.2019.1690973

Table 3.

Independent T-test for the Effect of Changing Reference on Evaluations of Attractiveness between Males and Females

	Gender comparison

Variables	All subjects	Males	Females	t (2-Tailed p)
Mean score with less attractive women (SD)	4.51 (2.471)	3.81 (2.447)	4.89 (2.403)	−7.02 (<0.001)
Mean score with more attractive women (SD)	3.11 (1.938)	2.69 (1.943)	3.33 (1.900)	−5.276 (<0.001)
Mean score with less attractive men (SD)	3.35 (2.194)	3.32 (2.439)	3.36 (2.053)	−0.282 (0.778)
Mean score with more attractive men (SD)	2.65 (1.811))	2.71(2.056)	2.61 (1.665)	0.928 (0.354)