The biasing effects of appearances go beyond physical attractiveness and mating motives.
The influence of appearances goes well beyond physical attractiveness and includes the surprisingly powerful impact of "face-ism" - the tendency to stereotype individuals based on their facial features. A growing body of research has revealed that these face-based social attributions bias the outcomes of labor markets and experimental economic games in ways that are hard to explain via evolutionary mating motives.
Tepper School of Business,Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh, PA 15213olivola@cmu.eduhttps://sites.google.com/site/chrisolivola/.
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Department of Psychology,Princeton University,Princeton, NJ 08540.atodorov@princeton.eduhttp://tlab.princeton.edu/.
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