Is there an alternative explanation to the evolutionary account for financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive individuals?
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- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X16000467
Is there an alternative explanation to the evolutionary account for financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive individuals?
Abstract
All three critical points of the evolutionary explanation proposed by Maestripieri et al. may not withstand close scrutiny. Instead, there should be an alternative explanation that has nothing to do with genetic continuity, but stresses the rewarding property of attractiveness that results mainly from sociocultural value assignment and sexual experience pursuit.
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Moving forward with interdisciplinary research on attractiveness-related biases.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e45. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1600090X. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 28327254
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Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e19. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000340. Epub 2016 Jun 10. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 27283466 Review.
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