Facial attractiveness, applicants' qualifications, and judges' expertise about decisions in preselective recruitment.
The aim of this study was to assess how facial attractiveness, applicants' qualifications, and the expertise of judges influence preselective recruitment in a relational occupation, hotel management. Participants (96 hotel managers and 96 students) were asked to judge a fictitious applicant based on a resume and a photograph. Overall, analysis showed that the classic effect of attractiveness on the judgments of evaluators was modulated by the applicants' qualifications.
Dubois
Michael
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Laboratory of Social Psychology, Université Pierre Mendès, Grenoble-Chambéry.
Pansu
Pascal
P
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D001504:Beauty; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007586:Job Application; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013240:Stereotyping