Group A

• Beauty is not, as it is often assumed to be, “in the eye of the beholder” – but follows certain predictable rules.
• The fascination for the perfect makeup or skincare is fired up by the impact of perfect faces displayed on social media and enhanced by image processing and filters.

Pretty privilege

• Numerous studies have shown that attractive individuals benefit from a beauty bonus and earn higher salaries on average.
• Beautiful individuals are consistently expected to be more intelligent and thought to be better leaders, which influences career trajectories and opportunities.

Does being attractive make you more trustworthy?

• In our recent paper Adam Zylbersztejn, Zakaria Babutsidze, Nobuyuki Hanaki and I set out to find out.
• Previous studies presented different portraits of individuals to observers and asked them about their beliefs about these people.
• Each player’s payoff thus depended on their own actions and/or the actions of the other player:

If player A chooses “Left”, then regardless of player Bs’ choice:
If player A chooses “Right” and player B chooses “Don’t roll”:
If player A chooses “Right” and player B chooses “Roll”:

• To do so they were presented with the abstract choice scenario explained above while individually sat in a cubicle.
• If they decided not to trust, they were sure to receive a meagre 5-euro payout for their participation in the study.
• However, once an A player decided to trust their B partner, their fate was in the B player’s hands.

Does gender come into play?

• This implies that in our abstract economic exchange, beautiful individuals are more likely to benefit from the trust of others.
• However, when investigating actual behaviour, we see that beautiful individuals are neither more nor less trustworthy than anyone else.
• In other words, trustworthiness is driven by good old individual values and personality, which are not correlated with how someone looks.

Are beautiful people more suspicious of their peers?

• However, we might wonder who is more likely to fall prey to this bias.
• We constructed our study such that we could also investigate this question.
• Specifically, the participants we recruited in Lyon to make their predictions also had their photos taken.
• We thus knew how much they were influenced by the looks of others but also how conventionally good-looking they were themselves.

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