Judging a Book by its Cover: Beauty and Expectations in the Trust Game

By Rick K. Wilson, Catherine C. Eckel. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust (2010, background): “Although attractive faces are trusted (Wilson & Eckel, 2006), male attractiveness (Takahashi, Yamagishi, Tanida, Kiyonari, & Kanazawa, 2006) and male symmetry (Zaatari & Trivers, 2007) predict less cooperative behavior in economic games.”
• Predicting Election Outcomes from Positive and Negative Trait Assessments of Candidate Images (2010, background): “Examples include studies of court verdicts (Piehl, 1977; Sigall & Ostrove, 1975; Thornton, 1977) and studies of the beauty penalty when building trust or setting performance expectations (Andreoni & Petrie, 2008; Solnick & Schweitzer, 1999; Wilson & Eckel, 2006).”