The relative importance of facial attractiveness and gender in Hong Kong selection decisions

Chiu, Randy K.; Babcock, Richard D.

doi:10.1080/09585190110092857

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“…By the end of 2002, the beauty industry had become China's fourth largest consumer market and 1.54 million beauty parlors had been registered in China (Hu et al 2003). Chiu and Babcock (2002) found that an attractive face was more important than either grade point average or public exam performance in observer judgments of work skills of Hong Kong job candidates. Finally, as incomes have risen in China, rates of double eyelid surgery have increased dramatically as a means to improve the odds of success in work and love (Watts 2004).…”

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Sociocultural Predictors of Physical Appearance Concerns among Adolescent Girls and Young Women from China

Jackson

Chen

2007

Sex Roles

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This research assessed the extent to which sociocultural predictors of body dissatisfaction implicated in Western studies extend to the prediction of physical appearance concerns among young women and adolescent girls in Southwest China. In Study 1, 408 Chinese university-age women completed measures of fatness concern (FC), facial appearance concerns (FAC), sociocultural influence (i.e., appearance pressure, comparison, teasing), and demographics. In hierarchical regression analyses, appearance pressure and comparison predicted both FC and FAC, independent of other factors. In Study 2, effects of appearance pressure and comparison were replicated among middle school (n=346) and high school (n=563) girls. Together, findings suggest that appearance pressure and social comparison correspond with specific body image concerns of young females in China.

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Sociocultural Predictors of Physical Appearance Concerns among Adolescent Girls and Young Women from China

Jackson

Chen

2007

Sex Roles

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“…For example, height is positively correlated with workplace success and income (see Judge & Cable, 2004 for a metaanalytic review) and is positively associated with judgements of charisma and perceived competency in leaders (Blaker, Rompa, Dessing, Vriend, Herscheberg & van Vugt, 2013;Hamstra, 2014). In addition, measures of physical attractiveness are positively linked with performance in mock and real job interviews (Chiu & Babcock, 2002;Marlowe, Schneider & Nelson, 1996), salesperson performance (Ahearne, Gruen & Jarvis, 1999) and income (Frieze, Olson & Russel, 1991;Judge, Hurst & Simon, 2009). Moreover, CEOs of financially-successful companies are more likely to have 'robust' facial features, as indexed by a higher facial-width-to-height ratio, than their relatively less successful peers (Wong, Ormiston & Haselhuhn, 2011).…”

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Perceptions of facial dominance, trustworthiness and attractiveness predict managerial pay awards in experimental tasks

Fruhen

Watkins

Jones

2015

The Leadership Quarterly

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Positive associations between physical attractiveness and employee reward are well-documented within the organizational literature. Although the impact of facial cues to trustworthiness and dominance on a number of social outcomes has been established outside of the workplace, the extent to which they affect pay at different managerial levels in addition to attractiveness is yet to be investigated. This paper presents research into this issue using a face payment task for shop floor managers (Retail Managers) and senior managers (Heads of Retail Operations). Evaluations indicated that all three facial cues were positively associated with awarded pay at both managerial levels. Moreover, attractiveness had a significantly stronger link with shop-floor managers' than senior managers' pay, whereas perceived trustworthiness and perceived dominance had significantly stronger links with pay for senior managers than shop-floor managers. It further emerged that women were paid more in this experimental task where pay was awarded solely based on facial features and that the facial features were more predictive of women's than men's pay. Awareness of the role of physical cues in pay awards can be considered by organizations to reduce biases in remuneration. FACIAL CUES AND PAY2

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“…Within organizational settings, there is substantial evidence that being attractive is associated with positive jobrelated outcomes (Hosoda, Stone-Romero, & Coats, 2003), such as enhanced perceptions of job qualifications (Shannon & Stark, 2003;Watkins & Johnston, 2000), hiring and promotion decisions (Chiu & Babcock, 2002;Marlowe, Schneider, & Nelson, 1996), recommendations for receiving higher starting salaries (French, 2002), and evaluations of career potential (Morrow, McElroy, Stamper, & Wilson, 1990). The conclusion of this research is apparently quite clear: Being attractive is good for one's career.…”

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Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Social Decision Making

Agthe

Spörrle

Maner

2011

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

119

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Previous studies of organizational decision making demonstrate an abundance of positive biases directed toward highly attractive individuals. The current research, in contrast, suggests that when the person being evaluated is of the same sex as the evaluator, attractiveness hurts, rather than helps. Three experiments assessing evaluations of potential job candidates (Studies 1 and 3) and university applicants (Study 2) demonstrated positive biases toward highly attractive other-sex targets but negative biases toward highly attractive same-sex targets. This pattern was mediated by variability in participants’ desire to interact with versus avoid the target individual (Studies 1 and 2) and was moderated by participants’ level of self-esteem (Study 3); the derogation of attractive same-sex targets was not observed among people with high self-esteem. Findings demonstrate an important exception to the positive effects of attractiveness in organizational settings and suggest that negative responses to attractive same-sex targets stem from perceptions of self-threat.

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The relative importance of facial attractiveness and gender in Hong Kong selection decisions

Cited by 72 publications

References 2 publications

Sociocultural Predictors of Physical Appearance Concerns among Adolescent Girls and Young Women from China

Sociocultural Predictors of Physical Appearance Concerns among Adolescent Girls and Young Women from China

Perceptions of facial dominance, trustworthiness and attractiveness predict managerial pay awards in experimental tasks

Does Being Attractive Always Help? Positive and Negative Effects of Attractiveness on Social Decision Making

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