HCML Reading Group Session on 30.07.2024

[Aditya Gulati]

Hello hello!

Here are the details of our next session:

Title: What is Beautiful is Still Good: The Attractiveness Halo Effect in the era of Beauty Filters

Authors: Aditya Gulati, Marina Martinez-Garcia, Daniel Fernandez, Miguel Angel Lozano, Bruno Lepri, Nuria Oliver

Abstract: The impact of cognitive biases on decision-making in the digital world remains under-explored despite its well-documented effects in physical contexts. This study addresses this gap by investigating the attractiveness halo effect using AI-based beauty filters. We conduct a large-scale online user study involving 2,748 participants who rated facial images from a diverse set of 462 distinct individuals in two conditions: original and attractive after applying a beauty filter.

Our study reveals that the same individuals receive statistically significantly higher ratings of attractiveness and other traits, such as intelligence and trustworthiness, in the attractive condition. We also study the impact of age, gender, and ethnicity and identify a weakening of the halo effect in the beautified condition, resolving conflicting findings from the literature and suggesting that filters could mitigate this cognitive bias. Finally, our findings raise ethical concerns regarding the use of beauty filters.

Paper link: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4698268/v1

Presenter: Aditya Gulati

When: 30th of July at 3pm CEST
Where: usual meeting link! :D

Looking forward to seeing you there! This session promises to be super interesting, although my opinion is (just slightly) biased ;)

Best,
Aditya