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The (Long) Nose Doesn’t Have It: Nose Length as a Factor in Salt and Pepper Passage
Pat Minér, Bill Horn, Minér Patrick
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2016.02.005
Université Collège du Québec, Québec, Canada University Institute of Ontario at Wawa, Ontario, Canada et al.
In extension of previous works, eighty female undergraduates complete questionnaire with snacks and drinks, along with a salt shaker and a pepper shaker available. They are asked to pass salt or pepper by another female or a male who also works on questionnaire, but who is in league with the experimenter. These confederates have either the very long nose or normal-sized (short) nose (le nez normal). Participants comply to both requests, but are slower to respond to pepper request than to salt request and to the person with the long nose. Response times are particularly slow when the request was made by male with long nose (homme avec le nez long). Implications for similarity theory and attraction theory are discussed and suggestions are made for the future research going forward.
nose length, salt passage, pepper passage
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