Professor Axelrod is interested in the effects of physical attractiveness on how others interpret the appearance and behaviors of attractive versus unattractive people.Professor Axelrod is most likely to be interested in

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Professor Axelrod's interest in how physical attractiveness affects how others interpret appearance and behavior pertains to social perception, the process by which people use social stimuli to form judgements and impressions of others. Attribution theory (A) is focused on how people explain the cause of behaviors or events. Lie detection (B) pertains to identifying deception or dishonesty in communication. Social encoding (D) refers to the process by which people remember and store information about others in their memory.

Professor Axelrod Is Interested in the Effects of Physical Attractiveness