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Does being attractive always help?

Eric Barker
August 7, 2011

Being attractive is good if the context has you evaluated by the opposite sex. If you’re being evaluated by the same-sex it looks like some competitiveness kicks in and it can be a clear negative:

Previous studies of organizational decision making demonstrate an 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 same-sex targets. This pattern was mediated by variability in participantsâ desire to interact with versus avoid the target individual (Studies 1 and 2) and was moderated by participantsâ level of self-esteem (Study 3); the derogation of attractive same-sex targets was not observed among people with high 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.

Source: “Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Social Decision Making” from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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Title Does being attractive always help?
Author Eric Barker
Date August 7, 2011 8:42 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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