Psychology / We examined the relationship between infant attractiveness and adult affect, focusing on the potential link between affect and differential treatment of attractive and unattractive infants in a two-phase study. In Phase 1, we investigated whether differing levels of infant facial attractiveness would elicit positive and negative affect from adults (N=87) using electromyography. Unattractive infant faces evoked significantly more corrugator supercilii and levator labii superioris movement (physiological correlates of negative affect) than attractive infant faces. In Phase 2, we measured caregiving behavior and explicit bias of the same adults toward two infant simulators, one attractive and one unattractive. Participants’ positive affect, as measured by the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and explicit biases predicted how well they cared for the infant simulators, but their affect measured by the facial muscle movements in the EMG portion of the study did not. These results suggest that unattractive infants may be at risk for negative affective responses from adults, though the relationship between those responses and caregiving behavior remains elusive. / text

Equitable romantic relationships are relationships in which partners perceive that they are giving benefits to their partner that equal the benefits they receive from their partner (e.g., Walster, Traupmann, & Walster, 1978), and such relationships promote commitment (Rusbult, 1980). But do equity considerations influence observers’ impressions of a romantic couple? In the present study, I tested this possibility by examining observers’ impressions of romantic partners who were mismatched in physical attractiveness (i.e., one partner will be more physically attractive than the other). In this situation, heterosexual observers instinctually categorize the opposite-sex member of the couple as a potential mate and the same-sex member of the couple as a competitor for the potential mate’s affection (e.g., Buss & Dedden, 1990; Fisher & Cox, 2009). Furthermore, observers also conclude that a potential mate who is more attractive than his or her current partner (i.e., the competitor) is not committed to his or her current relationship (Stinson & Reddoch, unpublished data). Thus, when evaluating a romantic couple, I hypothesize that observers’ will demonstrate mating-motivated biased perceptions of potential mates and competitors when the mate is more attractive than the competitor, because such more-attractive potential mates will be perceived as romantically “available.” Participants viewed photos of dating couples who matched in attractiveness, or viewed photos of dating couples where the mate was more attractive or less attractive than the competitor. Participants then rated the potential mates’ and competitors’ status-resources (SR; Fletcher et al., 1999). Results supported my theory of mating-motivated person-perception: Observers derogated the SRs of competitors who were paired with a more attractive (and romantically available) potential mate. / Graduate / 0623 / 0451 / c.joordens@gmail.com

The continuous growth of international trade and development of containerization bring about the emergence and development of inland ports- inland sites performing seaport functions that do not require waterways (also called dry ports). However, so far inland/dry port research has paid very limited attention to Canadian inland ports. CentrePort Canada, located in Winnipeg where manufacturing is the largest industry, is the first Canadian inland port with three transportation modes and foreign trade zone status and is endeavoring to attract more businesses especially in manufacturing. This thesis thus aims to investigate whether CentrePort Canada, especially the North part, is an attractive site for manufacturers to locate their businesses. Attractiveness is measured by matching CentrePort Canada features with the location factors considered by specific manufacturers. Eight case studies involving in-depth interviews are conducted to explore manufacturers’ perspectives on site selection factors and CentrePort Canada (North). Three groups of manufacturers are included: established companies located in CentrePort Canada South, new companies located in CentrePort Canada North, and established firms located elsewhere in Winnipeg. This thesis concludes that CentrePort Canada North is so far attractive to Winnipeg-based companies having plans to relocate within the city and outside manufacturers distributing to new markets. Winnipeg-based companies more appreciate CentrePort Canada-related features including available land, low land cost, and CentrePort Canada Way, while outside manufacturers are more interested in regional features such as low business costs, taxes and incentives, market access, and ease of transportation. For attracting new manufacturing operations, governments need to provide more manufacturing-related incentives and the inland port should improve its services and promote more actively to the outside manufacturing industry. This study not only adds to Canadian inland port research, but also supports the adaptation of a relational approach integrating behavioral and structural location theories in addressing a site attractiveness evaluation. / May 2017

Human resource is a kind of organization competition; it may be a key part for organization to survive in the market. For job seekers, what are the contents that they would most like to know and what kinds of factors will influence their willing toward their jobs? This research focuses on the social freshmen, utilizes the method of Analytic Hierarchy Process to get the organizational attractiveness for the job seekers, and to get the main point for social freshmen for their first job. In this research, through analyzing the data of the questionnaires, the results are as below: 1.Most social freshmen consider that whether or not their interests match with the job contents. 2.Social freshmen put the compensation in the first place. 3.Social freshmen who want to be in Service Industry expected for the salary. For male, they care more about the system of rewards as compared with female that the system benefits will influence their willing. 4.Social freshmen who want to be in Financial Industry, both male and female, think the salary is the chief job consideration. Moreover, male freshmen take the scale of the organization as a key factor for their job choice as compared of female take whether the job stable or not will influence their willing. 5.Social freshmen who want to be in High-Technical Industry, excepted for the compensation. Male want to the job to be matched with their interests and female depend on the job contents.

Abstract The reason why organizations attract potential employees has been studied for a long time, excellent human resources are relatively limit under tight labor market. Therefore businesses compete with each other at recruiting these employees, but only to increase the attractiveness of organization itself ultimately keeping advantage of appeal of talented people. Talking about organizational attractiveness, corporate reputation and image first come to people¡¦s mind. The reputation index conduct by CommonWealth magazine annually influences corporate reputation and image of the public. As the development of globalization, businesses have to concern more while making an important decision.Such as ethical, legal and discretionary concerns, so called corporate citizenship. This study is intended to find relationship between corporate citizenship image, reputation and organizational attractiveness. 19 businesses are selected out form CommonWealth magazine 2006 corporate citizenship survey, 340 graduating master or bachelor students as responds. Results show that corporate citizenship image positively influence organizational attractiveness and there is a significance between high and low corporate citizenship image groups in reputation and organizational attractiveness.

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Although more than 2500 articles published since 1970 deal with facial attractiveness, few have addressed whether characteristics of the beholder might influence such judgments. The present study considers whether misattribution and/or distraction contribute to a hypothesized change in males' ratings of female facial attractiveness when state anxiety is increased. Results obtained were consistent with distraction theory but were also interpretable through an alternative misattribution explanation. Participant relationship status was also found to be a significant predictor of attractiveness ratings and suggested the possibility that relationship status might interact with state anxiety to uniquely influence males’ attractiveness ratings for female faces. Implications and applications of these findings are discussed for clinical, social, and developmental psychology and recommendations given for future research into this and related phenomena.

The current study was conducted to investigate whether gender and physical attractiveness of face primes had any effect on subsequent categorization of weapons and non-weapons by participants. In Study 1 participants were required to rate a set of face photos of men and women on their level of at-tractiveness and also how threatening they perceived them to be. These photos were used for Study 2 as primes paired with weapons and non-weapons. One hundred and ten University of Canterbury students were required to categorise weapons from non-weapons after primed faces appeared on a computer screen. Adapted from the ‘shooter paradigm’ and priming studies, this aimed to discover participant’s stereotypes when threat is involved. Specifically, it aimed to assess people’s susceptibility to perceive a non-threatening item as a threat. Three possible theories are presented to explain the findings – the halo effect, the evolutionary intra-sexual competition theory, and the arousal theory. The results of study 1 indicated that there is a negative correlation between physical attractiveness and threat, such that as a target’s physical attractiveness increases their perceived level of threat decreases, suggesting the existence of an overall halo effect (attractive people are non-threatening). The results of study 2 revealed an impact of female primes (in particular attractive female primes) on males’ misclassification of non-weapons. There was no effect found of the primes on females’ classifications. An arousal theory is used to explain this differential response. The results are discussed in terms of implications for the real-world and limitations of the study are outlined and suggestions are made regarding future research.

Uppsatsen berör det allt vanligare begreppet CSR (Corporate Social Responsilitility), det vill säga företags samhällsansvar. Genom att uppmärksamma trender och studenters intresseområden kan företag öka sin attraktivitet i sitt arbetsgivarvarumärke, Employer Brand. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur företag kan implementera information om sitt CSR-arbete i Employer Branding-strategin för att på så vis öka sin attraktionskraft gentemot studenter. I studien studeras tre företag; EY, Accenture och Sweco. Företagens Employer Branding-strategi och CSR-arbete beskrivs och redovisas översiktligt. Vidare kartläggs hur företagen väljer att kommunicera ut det CSR-arbete de bedriver gentemot studenter och andra intressenter. En enkätundersökning genomförs för att få studenternas perspektiv på vikten av CSR och undersöka hur företagens kommunikation har nått ut. Resultatet av studien analyseras med hjälp utav en egenutvecklad modell som kopplar samman Employer Branding-strategier med CSR-dimensioner och kommunikationsstrategier. En slutsats som dras är att CSR kan implementeras i strategin på olika vis beroende på kärnverksamhet och typ av företag. Utifrån enkätundersökningen dras en slutsats att studenter inte främst fokuserar på CSR-aspekter när det kommer till att värdera en arbetsgivares attraktivitet. Aspekter som balans mellan arbete och fritid, utmanande arbetsuppgifter samt sammanhållning på arbetsplatsen är de som visar sig vara mest efterfrågade. Slutsatsen som dras är att det är genom mässor och arbetsmarknadsdagar som studenterna haft mest kontakt med företagen och att en mer aktiv kommunikation av CSR i dessa forum skulle kunna resultera i att företaget lyckas kommunicera ut mer av sitt CSR-engagemang.

Although more than 2500 articles published since 1970 deal with facial attractiveness, few have addressed whether characteristics of the beholder might influence such judgments. The present study considers whether misattribution and/or distraction contribute to a hypothesized change in males' ratings of female facial attractiveness when state anxiety is increased. Results obtained were consistent with distraction theory but were also interpretable through an alternative misattribution explanation. Participant relationship status was also found to be a significant predictor of attractiveness ratings and suggested the possibility that relationship status might interact with state anxiety to uniquely influence males’ attractiveness ratings for female faces. Implications and applications of these findings are discussed for clinical, social, and developmental psychology and recommendations given for future research into this and related phenomena.