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Achieving at university and beyond: does it help to be good looking?

Zubcevic, Nives; Mavondo, Felix; Luxton, Sandra - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 24 (2012) 5, pp. 785-804

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the associations between attitudes to academic achievement and post university success using perceptions of attractiveness, gender, ethnic identity, personality, and social acceptance as antecedents. Design/methodology/approach – An online...

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Visual persuasion with physically attractive models in ads: An examination of how the ad model influences product evaluations

Söderlund, Magnus; Lange, Fredrik - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

This paper examines the prevalent advertising practice of visually juxtaposing an anonymous, physically attractive ad model and a product in terms of its effects on the attitude toward the product. In this appeal, in which there are no explicit verbal claims about how the two objects are...

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Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful: Acknowledging appearance mitigates the “beauty is beastly” effect

Johnson, Stefanie K.; Sitzmann, Traci; Nguyen, Anh Thuy - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 125 (2014) 2, pp. 184-192

the beauty is beastly effect. We conducted three studies to establish an intervention for mitigating the beauty is beastly …

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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes: A review of the literature

Xing, LIU; Eva, SIERMINSKA - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2014

Examining the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes has become a growing field of labor economics. In fact, the way … to the channels through which beauty may affect wage differentials. Overall our survey confirms the existence of a … positive association between beauty and labor market outcomes such as earnings and employment opportunities (call-back rates …

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Physical Attractiveness Or Referrals: Which Matters The Most?

Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

There is a blend of various factors on which the hiring of employee is based upon. This paper investigates and interrogates the contribution of physical attractiveness and referrals in the hiring of employee and further ponders on which matters the most from the above outlined variables when an...

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Photograph and model use within an online auction page for influencing buyer's bidding behavior

Lo, Shao‐Kang; Chiu, Yu‐Ping; Hsieh, Ai‐Yun - In: Online Information Review 37 (2013) 3, pp. 354-368

Purpose – This paper concentrates on the visual information within a product description block in an online auction page, which is the only place a seller can manipulate to influence bidders. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of photograph use, model use, and the physical...

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The effect of service providers' facial hair on restaurant customers' perceptions

Kim, Sung-Bum; Lee, Seunghwan; Kim, Dae-Young - In: Service business 12 (2018) 2, pp. 277-303

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Perfecting beauty under the knife : the determinants of global cosmetic surgery consumption

Beghin, John C.; Teshome, Yalem - 2014

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Attractiveness, anthropometry or both? : their relationship and role in economic research

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014

We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all...

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"O youth and beauty" : children's looks and children's cognitive development

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Gordon, Rachel A.; Crosnoe, Robert - 2019

both data sets show that a substantial part of the economic returns to beauty result indirectly from its effects on …

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