Don't hate me because I'm beautiful: Anti-attractiveness bias in organizational evaluation and decision making

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1151-1154

  Agthe, M ^a   Spörrle, Matthias ^a   Maner, Jon K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Gender; Person selection decisions; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956613243     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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