The findings have an intuitive plausibility, though as always when scientists try to boil human variety down to a few manageable stereotypes they contain moments of unintended comedy. In the third experiment (there was a whole series of them), the participants were shown one of two portraits of a fictitious artist called Stefansson. One was an ordinary-looking male in his twenties, while the other depicted a man of the same age who "had half-long hair combed over one side of his head" and “had not shaved for several days”.