Beauty and the Sources of Discrimination
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| Title: | Beauty and the Sources of Discrimination |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Belot, Michele, Bhaskar, V., van de Ven, Jeroen |
| Source: | Journal of Human Resources. Sum 2012 47(3):851-872. |
| Availability: | University of Wisconsin Press. 1930 Monroe Street, Madison, WI 53711-2059. Tel: 608-263-0668; Fax: 608-263-1173; e-mail: journals@uwpress.wisc.edu; Web site: http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 22 |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Adult Education |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries, Television, Interpersonal Attraction, Games, Wages, Social Bias, Peer Evaluation, Peer Acceptance, Behavioral Sciences, Consumer Economics, Game Theory, Decision Making, Cooperation, Ability |
| Geographic Terms: | Netherlands |
| ISSN: | 0022-166X |
| Abstract: | We analyze discrimination against less attractive people on a TV game show with high stakes. The game has a rich structure that allows us to disentangle the relationship between attractiveness and the determinants of a player's earnings. Unattractive players perform no worse than attractive ones, and are equally cooperative in the prisoner's dilemma stage of the game. Nevertheless, they are substantially more likely to be eliminated by their peers, even though this is costly. We investigate third party perceptions of discrimination by asking subjects to predict elimination decisions. Subjects implicitly assign a role for attractiveness but underestimate its magnitude. (Contains 1 figure, 10 tables, and 26 footnotes.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 31 |
| Entry Date: | 2012 |
| Access URL: | https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/3/851.abstract |
| Accession Number: | EJ983158 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | We analyze discrimination against less attractive people on a TV game show with high stakes. The game has a rich structure that allows us to disentangle the relationship between attractiveness and the determinants of a player's earnings. Unattractive players perform no worse than attractive ones, and are equally cooperative in the prisoner's dilemma stage of the game. Nevertheless, they are substantially more likely to be eliminated by their peers, even though this is costly. We investigate third party perceptions of discrimination by asking subjects to predict elimination decisions. Subjects implicitly assign a role for attractiveness but underestimate its magnitude. (Contains 1 figure, 10 tables, and 26 footnotes.) |
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| ISSN: | 0022-166X |
