The cultural–ecological moderation hypothesis suggests that the importance of physical attractiveness (PA) for life outcomes is particularly pronounced in settings that afford constructions of the relationship as the product of choice. The current work addresses an ambiguity in earlier research that documented a cultural–ecological moderation effect on expectations about life outcomes of attractive and unattractive targets. Specifically, do cultural–ecological forces moderate PA-based discrimination (i.e., differential expectations as a function of PA) or discrimination of PA (i.e., differences in ratings of PA itself)? In Study 1, we used Bayesian multilevel moderated mediation to reanalyze data from the original study. In Study 2, we performed similar analyses on data from a new sample. Results provide consistent evidence for a cultural–ecological moderation effect on discrimination of PA and some evidence for a cultural–ecological moderation effect on PA-based discrimination.

在文化生态适度假说认为，身体吸引力（PA）的生活结果的重要性在获得作为首选产品之间的关系的结构设置特别明显。当前的工作解决了早期研究中的歧义，该研究记录了文化生态节制对有吸引力和缺乏吸引力的目标的生命结果的期望的影响。具体而言，文化生态力量是否会减轻基于PA的歧视（即，不同的期望作为PA的函数）或PA的歧视（即，PA本身评级的差异）？在研究1中，我们使用贝叶斯多级调解来重新分析原始研究的数据。在研究2中，我们对来自新样本的数据进行了类似的分析。结果提供了一个一致的证据，文化生态节制对PA的歧视和对一些证据效力文化生态适度基于PA-歧视效果。