Looking Like a Million Dollars: Does Attractiveness Priming Increase Altruistic Behavior in Experimental Games?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F21%3A43920637" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/21:43920637 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/21:10438705
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658466/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658466/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658466" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2021.658466</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Looking Like a Million Dollars: Does Attractiveness Priming Increase Altruistic Behavior in Experimental Games?
Original language description
The emergence of altruistic behavior constitutes one of the most widely studied problems in evolutionary biology and behavioral science. Multiple explanations have been proposed, most importantly including kin selection, reciprocity, and costly signaling in sexual selection. In order to test the latter, this study investigated whether people behave more altruistically when primed by photographs of attractive faces and whether more or less altruistic people differ in the number of sexual and romantic partners. Participants in the general population (N = 158, 84 F, 74 M) first rated the attractiveness of photographs of 20 faces of the opposite (sexually preferred) sex and then played the Dictator and Ultimatum Games (DG and UG). The photograph rating acted as priming; half the participants received photographs of people rated as more attractive than average in an earlier study, and the other half received photographs previously rated as less attractive. The attractiveness-primed participants, especially men, were expected to behave more altruistically—signaling that they are desirable, resource-possessing partners. We also expected altruists to self-report more sexual and romantic partners. The observed difference between altruistic behaviors in the attractiveness- and unattractiveness-primed groups occurred in UG offers, however, in the opposite than expected direction in women. The number of sexual partners was positively correlated to minimum acceptable offers (MAOs) in the UG, in line with expectations based on the theory of costly signaling.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-13692S" target="_blank" >GA18-13692S: Conservation of Rh Polymorphism in Modern Humans through Selection Favoring Heterozygotes – The Influence of the Genotype on Fertility and Viability</a><br>
Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN
1664-1078
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
"Article Number: 658466"
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1-9
UT code for WoS article
000681114500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85111911225