Psych 115
Does hair dictate how often men and women touch their face?
I. Intro Have you ever wondered whether something is a stereotype or true? To figure out who touches their face more, men vs women, I inconspicuously watch four men and women to see how often they touched their face.
My hypothesis is that women will touch their face more, unless the man has facial hair. My reasoning for that is that women tend to have more hair in our culture than men and for fashion women tend to wear their hair down. This will get in to way especially if they are looking down or its windy out because then it will get in their face. Women also tend to wear more makeup than men in our society. When a man has facial hair I assume that it becomes itchy. I watched people in a couple of spots. Some were in the Atwood, some were socializing at my high school and some in the library.
II. Method
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But while at my high school and Apollo there was so much commotion that it was easy to watch someone with needing to hide it much. I also had a friend who offered to look at people when my view was blocked by someone this way it was even more accurate. I would either keep a mental count or write down when I was acting like I was doing homework. Once I accomplished watching 8 people I then made a table showing each participants ID number, gender and number of times they touched their