Why Beautiful People Are More Intelligent.

By Satoshi Kanazawa, J. Kovar. 2004

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Alexander Todorov
2. Ralph Adolphs
3. Satoshi Kanazawa
4. Christopher Y. Olivola
5. Ron Dotsch
6. Nikolaas N. Oosterhof
7. Peter Mende-Siedlecki
8. M. Petersen

In Marketing

1. Alexander Todorov
2. Satoshi Kanazawa

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Alexander Todorov
2. Ralph Adolphs
3. Satoshi Kanazawa

Citations in the corpus

• Predicting Election Outcomes from Positive and Negative Trait Assessments of Candidate Images (2010, background): “In general, perceived physical attractiveness produces a halo effect that carries over to both positive trait attribution and positive social outcomes (Dion, Berscheid, & Walster, 1972; Kanazawa & Kovar, 2004).”
• Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent (2010, background): “The GSS asks this question in 3 While both height (Case and Paxson 2008; Jensen and Sinha 1993) and physical attractiveness (Kanazawa and Kovar 2004) are correlated with intelligence, entering them as additional controls does not alter the substantive findings on the effect of adolescent…”
• Intelligence and physical attractiveness (2011, background): “In contrast, Kanazawa and Kovar (2004) follow Buss's speculation above and posit that physically more attractive individuals may on average bemore intelligent because of the cross-trait assortativemating of intelligent men of high status and beautiful women.”