The group attractiveness (GA) effect reveals that groups as a whole are perceived as more attractive than the average attractiveness of their members. This effect seems to be driven by selective attention to the most attractive members of a group. We hypothesized that when group members stand out because of their unattractiveness, they would make a group as a whole seem less attractive. In the current study (N = 621), we aimed to replicate the GA-effect as well as reverse it. Indeed, the data replicated a GA effect for relatively attractive groups, while in relatively unattractive groups the group as a whole was perceived as less attractive than the average attractiveness of their members.

群体吸引力（GA）效应表明，总体上，人们认为群体比其成员的平均吸引力更具吸引力。这种效果似乎是由选择性关注某个组中最有吸引力的成员所驱动的。我们假设，当小组成员由于他们的吸引力而脱颖而出时，他们会使小组整体上看起来没有吸引力。在当前的研究中（N  = 621），我们旨在复制和逆转GA效应。确实，数据复制了相对吸引群体的GA效应，而在相对缺乏吸引力的群体中，整个群体的吸引力小于其成员的平均吸引力。