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. 2017 Jan:40:e29.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000509.

Mating motives are neither necessary nor sufficient to create the beauty premium

Sebastian Hafenbrädl  1 , Jason Dana  1
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Mating motives are neither necessary nor sufficient to create the beauty premium

Sebastian Hafenbrädl et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Mating motives lead decision makers to favor attractive people, but this favoritism is not sufficient to create a beauty premium in competitive settings. Further, economic approaches to discrimination, when correctly characterized, could neatly accommodate the experimental and field evidence of a beauty premium. Connecting labor economics and evolutionary psychology is laudable, but mating motives do not explain the beauty premium.

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