Briana Anderson - Cornell University
Briana Anderson - Cornell University
Briana Anderson - Cornell University
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H1a: Overall, the physical attractiveness of endorsers will have a positive<br />
relationship with endorser credibility.<br />
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Hypothesis H1a was not supported in this study. In fact, the opposite of this<br />
hypothesis was supported by this data. An ANOVA test revealed that, overall,<br />
attractive endorsers received statistically significantly lower ratings of endorser<br />
credibility than unattractive endorsers. Table 17 presents the results of the ANOVA<br />
test. This model had an F statistic of 31.140, with a significance level of .000.<br />
Table 17<br />
Credibility Means for Attractive and Unattractive Endorsers<br />
Objective<br />
Attractiveness<br />
Mean<br />
Endorser<br />
Credibility<br />
N Std.<br />
Deviation<br />
Unattractive 68.8676 136 14.8964<br />
Attractive 58.8254 136 14.7849<br />
Total 63.8465 272 15.6433<br />
H1b: Based on the same set of research, attractiveness should have a positive<br />
relationship with endorser trustworthiness.<br />
Hypothesis H1b was not supported with an ANOVA test. Just as in H1, the<br />
opposite of H1b’s prediction was significantly supported by this analysis – there is a<br />
negative relationship between endorser attractiveness and perceptions of endorser<br />
trustworthiness. Table 18 below presents the means from a univariate ANOVA test in