The Price of Being Beautiful: Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Empathy for Children in Need

By R. Fisher, Yu Ma. 2014

104 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Marketing

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a722f142a3a058fb649b08b8970e7d14865921f8

How researchers see this paper

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Daniel Västfjäll
2. Arvid Erlandsson
3. Petri Laukka
4. Patrik Juslin

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Geng Cui
2. Ling Peng
3. Yuho Chung
4. Wanyi Zheng
5. Daniel Västfjäll

In Marketing

1. Geng Cui
2. Ling Peng
3. Yuho Chung
4. Wanyi Zheng
5. Daniel Västfjäll

Citations in the corpus

• The Faces of Success: Beauty and Ugliness Premiums in e-Commerce Platforms (2020, background): “Meanwhile, studies have found that attractiveness sometimes fails to work, for instance, when helping children in need or selling an embarrassing product (Fisher and Ma 2014; Wan and Wyer 2015).”
• Attitudes and Donation Behavior When Reading Positive and Negative Charity Appeals (2018, background): “Similarly, pictures of nonbeautiful children made people donate more than pictures of beautiful children in charity appeals for nonacute causes (Fisher & Ma, 2014, Study 4).”