The phrase "attractiveness effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing psychology, marketing, or social influence, particularly when referring to how the attractiveness of one option can influence perceptions of another.
Example: "The attractiveness effect can lead consumers to favor a product simply because it is endorsed by an attractive spokesperson."
Alternatives: "appeal effect" or "beauty bias".
This could certainly explain the attractiveness effect: studies have found men rate women with redder faces more attractive.
The attractiveness effect is weaker when the women's clothing and hair are obscured in the photograph.
The study also examined coverage on NPR and in USA Today, and it found no correlation between the so-called attractiveness effect and coverage in those outlets.
[13] However, because correction requires cognition, [14] voters who are distracted or uninformed are less likely to correct for the physical attractiveness effect.
This lack of significance might be because attractiveness effect is less important when using male subjects [82], [83], but we do not have data to test this hypothesis.
Even though additional work is needed, an early indication is that the red-attractiveness-sexuality effect may hold true across cultures.
Third, we used a subjective measure of facial adiposity that, although positively correlated with actual BMI, may still be subject to perceptual biases (e.g., attractiveness halo effects, Dion, Berscheid, & Walster, 1972).
There was a correlation between perceived attractiveness and restorative effect yet this was not strong.
In some cases it is clear a priori that one of the factors is highly influential (e.g. age might be known to influence attractiveness, while the effect of song traits is questionable).
However, physical attractiveness has pervasive effects on interpersonal attraction (Back et al., 2011; Hatfield & Sprecher, 1986) and might have influenced romantic interest and potentially also the emotions elicited in others.
However, the effects on effectiveness, attractiveness and perceived demands differed much between studies.
