The authors tested schematic information processing as a function of attractiveness stereotyping in two studies. An adult experimenter read children (ages 3 to 7 years) eight different stories in which a child narrator encountered two characters who varied in level of attractiveness and displayed positive or negative traits that were either consistent or inconsistent with the “beauty is good” s...

MITJA D. BACK*, LARS PENKE, STEFAN C. SCHMUKLE, KAROLINE SACHSE, PETER BORKENAU and JENS B. ASENDORPF Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK Department of Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany Department of Psychology, Martin-Lu...

We conduct a repeated VCM (voluntary contribution mechanism) experiment using the strategy method. We compare a partner and a stranger design and find that participants in the partner treatment provide (i) higher initial contributions, (ii) higher contributions on average over all periods, and (iii) contributions that do not vary more strongly with past contributions than participants in the st...

Attractiveness plays a central role in human non-verbal communication and has been broadly examined in diverse subfields of contemporary psychology. Researchers have garnered compelling evidence in support of the evolutionary functions of physical attractiveness and its role in our daily lives, while at the same time, having largely ignored the significant contribution of non-visual modalities ...

This study hypothesized that firms’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) evaluation is related positively to their attractiveness prospective employees. Although growing number of researches have been focusing on relations between ESG corporate financial performance, few investigated the link as employers. Results indicate employers, suggesting a firm’s high scores may provide competitive...

Consumer decision making is a well-known application domain for decision support systems. Emerging from this domain is support for consumers bon the go,Q when they are actually inside a retail store. This paper introduces a bproduct attractiveness cueQ as a way of delivering decision support in this context. The paper also provides an experiment to examine the effectiveness of these cues in a l...