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Attraction and cooperative behavior

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2013
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Darai, D., & Grätz, S. (2013). Attraction and cooperative behavior (No. 82; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

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Being good-looking seems to generate substantial benefits in many social interactions, making the "beauty premium" a not to be underrated economic factor. This paper investigates how physical attractiveness enables people to generate these benefits in the case of cooperation, using field data from a modified one-shot prisoner's dilemma played in a high-stakes television game show. While attractive contestants are not more or less cooperative than less attractive ones, facial attractiveness produces more cooperative behavior by counter

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Creators (Authors)

  • Darai, Donja
  • Grätz, Silvia

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Working paper series / Department of Economics

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Working Paper

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C71
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D83

Keywords

Beauty premium, gender, stereotypes, attractiveness, cooperation, Attraktion (Psychologie), Gefangenendilemma, Spieltheorie, Stereotypen, Kooperation

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2013-06

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2012-06-13

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36

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1664-7041

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Revised version ; former title: "Facing a dilemma: cooperative behavior and beauty"

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Green

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merlin-id:7052

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