The Effects of Likeability and Physical Attractiveness on Perceptions of the Competency of Counselors Committing Ethical Violations PDF Download

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This study explored the effects of three counselor factors (likeability, physical attractiveness, and ethical behavior) on the ratings of the counselor's Expertness, Attractiveness, and Trustworthiness by participants who read stimulus materials depicting a counseling session. This 2 X 2 X 2 analogue design employed the Counselor Rating Form - Short Form (Corrigan and Schmidt, 1983) to capture participants' perceptions of the counselor from one of eight possible combinations of likeable/unlikeable, physically attractive/physically less-attractive, and ethical/unethical behavior. Eighty one advanced graduate counseling students from a Midwestern university were randomly assigned to one of the eight conditions. Participants read a counselor biography, viewed a photograph, and read a transcript of a counseling session before rating the counselor using the CRF-S. Multivariate analyses and follow-up univariate analyses yielded significantly higher ratings for the likeable counselor (p