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. 2017 Jan:40:e38.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000595.

The biasing effects of appearances go beyond physical attractiveness and mating motives

Christopher Y Olivola  1 , Alexander Todorov  2
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The biasing effects of appearances go beyond physical attractiveness and mating motives

Christopher Y Olivola et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

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.

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