What sounds beautiful is good: The vocal attractiveness stereotype

Zuckerman, Miron; Driver, Robert

doi:10.1007/bf00990791

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“…In addition to the theories discussed above, the literature reports that physical and vocal attractiveness are highly correlated and thus suggests the existence of a vocal rather than a visual attractiveness stereotype (see, e.g., Zuckerman and Driver (1989)). Furthermore, physically attractive people are also assigned stronger verbal and social skills (e.g., Goldman and Lewis (1977) and Erwin and Calev (1984)).…”

Section: Vocal Attractiveness and Social Skillsmentioning

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“…Physically attractive people themselves do not behave differently than physically unattractive people. 3 Besides the theory of stereotyping based upon peoples' visual attractiveness, Zuckerman and Driver (1989) and Zuckerman, Hodgins, and Miyake (1990) proclaim the existence of a vocal attractiveness stereotype by showing that physical attractiveness is positively correlated with vocal attractiveness. Supporting a vocal-attractiveness mechanism, Mobius and Rosenblat (2006) find that the beauty premium even exists in treatments in which employers are able to talk to the employee without seeing the employee's picture.…”

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Facing a Dilemma: Cooperative Behavior and Beauty

Darai

Grätz

2012

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract This paper investigates the influence of physical attractiveness on cooperative behavior. We survey data from 211 episodes of a television game show and combine it with independent facial attractiveness ratings of the show's contestants. The final of the show represents a simultaneous one-shot modified prisoner's dilemma. Our results show that facially attractive contestants provoke cooperative behavior from their counterparts, but attractive contestants themselves do not behave differently from unattractive ones. This preferential treatment or "beauty premium" rewards attractive contestants with substantially higher monetary gains of up to £2 153. This finding applies to both sexes. But, the attractiveness effect is limited to mixed-gender interactions. Contestants are only more cooperative when facing an attractive fellow player of the opposite sex. Attractiveness also has no effect in group-decisions made by the contestants prior to the prisoner's dilemma. Therefore people seem to show a preference to cooperate with someone towards whom they are personally attracted; and this preference reaches full effect when people lack other information on which to base their decision. Terms of use: Documents in

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Section: Vocal Attractiveness and Social Skillsmentioning

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Section: Literaturementioning

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Facing a Dilemma: Cooperative Behavior and Beauty

Darai

Grätz

2012

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“…Vocally attractive people have been found to receive higher favorability ratings, among other valued outcomes (Zuckerman & Driver 1989). As previously stated, vocal attractiveness is defined as a voice that reveals confidence and lacks tension (Zuckerman & Driver 1989).…”

Section: Vocal Attractiveness and Leader Effectivenessmentioning

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“…As previously stated, vocal attractiveness is defined as a voice that reveals confidence and lacks tension (Zuckerman & Driver 1989). It is a combination of specific vocal cues (pitch, pitch variability, amplitude variability, pauses, and speech rate) that combine to form a voice that results in favorable impressions on others (DeGroot & Motowidlo 1999).…”

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“…Important vocal attributes include the back channel of auditory frequency and information as represented by pitch, sound frequency, and amplitude. We define vocal attractiveness as a voice that reveals confidence and lacks tension (Zuckerman & Driver 1989) and that results from a combination of specific vocal attributes (i.e., pitch, pitch variability, amplitude variability, pauses, and speech rate) that combine to form a voice that results in a favorable impression on others (DeGroot & Motowidlo 1999). We argue that a person's vocal attractiveness is a relevant aspect of the leader prototype.…”

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