THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS ON JOB‐RELATED OUTCOMES: A META‐ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
通过元分析实验研究，发现外貌吸引力对工作相关结果有正向偏差效应，且该效应在近年间有所减弱，对招聘和职场公平有启示。
We report the findings of a meta‐analytic review of experimental studies concerned with the biasing effect of physical attractiveness on a variety of job‐related outcomes. In support of implicit personality theory, attractive individuals were found to fare better than unattractive individuals in terms of a number of such outcomes. The weighted mean effect size, d , was .37 for all studies. In addition, tests for moderating effects showed that (a) the attractiveness bias did not differ between studies that provided low versus high amounts of job‐relevant information about the targets, (b) the same bias was greater for within‐subjects research designs than for between‐subjects designs, (c) professionals were as susceptible to the bias as were college students, (d) attractiveness was as important for men as for women, and (e) the biasing effect of attractiveness has decreased in recent years. Implications of these findings are considered.