Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative effects of Attractivess on Social Decision Making  

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Agthe, Maria ; Sporrle, Matthias ; Maner, Jon K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 37 no. 8 (Aug. 2011), page 1042-1054.
Topik: Personnel Selection; Social Interaction; Attractiveness; Human Sex Differences; Stereotypes
Fulltext: Pers Soc Psychol Bull-2011-Agthe-1042-54-Lph.pdf (377.53KB)

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Previous studies of organizational decision making demostrate and abundance of positive biases directed toward highly attractive individuals. The current research, in contrast, suggests that when the person being evaluated is of the same sex as the evaluator, attractiveness hurts, rather than helps. Three experiments assessing evaluations of potential job candidates (Studies 1 and 3) and university applicants (Study 2) demonstrated positive biases toward highly attractive other-sex targets but negative biases toward highly attractive samesex targets. This pattern was mediated by variability in participants' desire to interact with versus avoid the target individual (Studies 1 and 2) and was moderated by participants' level of self-esteem. Findings demonstrate an important exception to the positive effects of attractiveness in organizational settings and suggest that negative responses to attractive same-sex targets stem from perceptions of self-threat.

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