An assessment of the mating motive explanation of the beauty premium in market-based settings
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- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X16000601
An assessment of the mating motive explanation of the beauty premium in market-based settings
Abstract
Labor market and real-life studies were not designed to discriminate between evolutionary and taste-based and stereotype explanations for the beauty premium, have too many confounding effects, and lack crucial information. Smaller-stake and experimental studies provide more compelling evidence in favor of mating motives and suggest the direction of future research for the economists' field studies.
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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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