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Kajsa Hansson, foto.

Kajsa Hansson

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Kajsa Hansson, foto.

The beauty of prosocial behavior : The bi-directional link between attractiveness and prosocial behavior

Författare

  • Kajsa Hansson
  • Hooman Habibnia
  • Minou Goetze
  • Susann Fiedler

Summary, in English

This study explores the bi-directional relationship between attractiveness and prosocial behavior. While it is known that we often expect attractive people to act more prosocial, this research also examines how someone's actions can affect how attractive we perceive them to be. In a pre-registered incentivized behavioral experiment (n = 250), using avatar pictures representative of previous players in a dictator game, we asked participants (i) about their belief how prosocial the previous players behaved based solely on their avatars, which were either attractive or not, and (ii) to judge the avatars' attractiveness after learning whether their actions were prosocial or selfish. As anticipated, participants expected attractive avatars to behave more prosocially. More importantly, our study identified a robust causal effect of prosocial behavior on perceived attractiveness. Furthermore, those who already believed attractive people are more likely to be prosocial also judged the prosocial avatars as more attractive than those who were selfish. Our study highlights a dynamic, bi-directional relationship between attractiveness and behavior, offering a novel perspective on the intricate interplay of attractiveness, perception, and behavior in social contexts.

Avdelning/ar

  • LU profilområde: Naturlig och artificiell kognition
  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2024-03

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

305-317

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volym

219

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • Beauty premium
  • Beauty-is-good-stereotype
  • Pre-registered experiment
  • Prosocial behavior
  • Selfish behavior

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0167-2681