Beauty is talent: Task evaluation as a function of the performer's physical attractiveness.

1974/03/01 by David Landy, Harold Sigall · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Aesthetics #Art #Attraction #Attractiveness #Beauty #Cognitive psychology #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Fashion and Cultural Textiles #Function (biology) #Interpersonal attraction #Martial arts #Performing arts #Physical attractiveness #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Social psychology #Task (project management) #Visual arts

paper · doi:10.1037/h0036018

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Citations

• The Effect of Physical Attractiveness on Teacher Expectations
• Importance of physical attractiveness in dating behavior.
• What is beautiful is good.

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• Is beauty talent? Sex interaction in the attractiveness halo effect
• What is beautiful is good, but…: A meta-analytic review of research on the physical attractiveness stereotype.
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• Halo effect [wikipedia]