1 Also known as look-ism.
2 The seminal work on the attractiveness bias is “What Is Beautiful Is Good” by Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid, and Elaine Walster, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972, vol. 24(3), p. 285–290. A nice contemporary review of the attractiveness bias research is “Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-analytic and Theoretical Review” by Judith H. Langlois, et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2000, vol. 126(3), p. 390–423.
3 See, for example, “Baby Beautiful: Adult Attributions of Infant Competence as a Function of Infant Attractiveness” by Cookie W. Stephan and Judith H. Langlois, Child Development, 1984, vol. 55, p. 576–585.
4 Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff, Anchor Books, 2000.
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