Why beautiful people are more intelligent

2004/05/01 by Satoshi Kanazawa, S KANAZAWA · 3 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aggression #Attractiveness #Beauty #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification #Empirical research #Epistemology #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Evolutionary psychology #Perception #Personality #Physical attractiveness #Preference #Psychology #Social psychology #Stereotype (UML) #Trait

paper · doi:10.1016/j.intell.2004.03.003

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• Army General Classification Test Scores for Civilian Occupations
• Validity and utility of alternative predictors of job performance.
• Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life
• Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review.
• "Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours": Consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness.
• What Is Average and What Is Not Average About Attractive Faces?
• Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection: The role of symmetry and averageness.
• "General Intelligence," Objectively Determined and Measured
• Attractive Faces Are Only Average
• Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart
• What is beautiful is good.
• The nubility hypothesis

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• Halo effect [wikipedia]