ERIC Number: EJ983158
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-166X
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Beauty and the Sources of Discrimination
Belot, Michele; Bhaskar, V.; van de Ven, Jeroen
Journal of Human Resources, v47 n3 p851-872 Sum 2012
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.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Television, Interpersonal Attraction, Games, Wages, Social Bias, Peer Evaluation, Peer Acceptance, Behavioral Sciences, Consumer Economics, Game Theory, Decision Making, Cooperation, Ability
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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