Walker And Vul Hypothesis Of The Cheerleader Effect

Walker and Vul have researched an interesting topic: the “cheerleader effect”. The cheerleader effect states that people seem more attractive while in groups, compared to in isolation. The main research goal is to determine whether the cheerleader effects proves to be right or wrong. Walker and Vul hypothesis that the cheerleader effect is true, because when people are in large groups their face will appear more attractive because their face will be comparable to the average face of the group. These researchers state that this happens for three main reasons: 1) our visual system looks at faces in a group as whole, it does not focus on individual faces, 2) individuals faces are an average representation of the group 3) average group faces are