Figure 1

Photographs shown to study participants of the different clothing styles for male and female doctors. The “white coat” style consisted of a shirt, necktie and white coat for men, and a skirt and white coat for women; the scrubs consisted of dark red scrubs for both men and women; semiformal clothing consisted of a shirt and necktie for men, and a blouse and skirt for women; smart casual clothing was a white polo shirt for men, and a sleeveless blouse and skirt for women; casual clothing consisted of jeans and a T-shirt for men, and a T-shirt with skirt for women. In all photographs, the background, camera angle, posture, position of the stethoscope and name tag were kept constant, and, to avoid any effects of expression and countenance, no faces appeared in any of the photographs.