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The effects of envy, injustice, and physical attractiveness on allocation: when beauty is costly
DelPriore, Danielle Jocelin
DelPriore, Danielle Jocelin
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[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,
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2011
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Previous research lends support for the idea that beauty is good, particularly when possessed by women. However, because beauty can elicit the envy of one's peers, what is beautiful may also be costly. The current work tests predictions about the behavioral impact of envy on cooperative interactions between women. Women were primed with envy-related affect (or a control state) and were then asked to divide time performing a boring task between themselves and a fictitious female target. Activating the primary affective component of envy led participants to make more hostile allocations to attractive - relative to unattractive - targets. Further, chronically envious women primed with envy-related affect made more hostile allocations to attractive targets compared to women in the control condition and women who were not chronically envious. Although previous research provides extensive support for the notion that "what is beautiful is good," envy can render beauty costly in interactions between women.
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Psychology