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- Title
Never Pick a Fight with an Ugly Person, They’ve Got Nothing to Lose.
- Authors
Rayburn, Rachel; Wright, James
- Abstract
In the 1970s, social psychologists conducted numerous studies analyzing physical appearance as a social variable. More recent studies in the social sciences appear to have abandoned this topic as unimportant; in any case, very few social scientific studies have been found that incorporate a measure of attractiveness into their analyses. The present study seeks to revive the emphasis on physical attractiveness as a social variable by testing the relationship between crime severity and physical attractiveness, i.e., by presenting evidence to suggest that physically unattractive men commit more serious offenses.
- Subjects
CRIMINOLOGICAL theory; UGLINESS; PERSONAL beauty; SEXUAL attraction
- Publication
Society, 2009, Vol 46, Issue 4, p347
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12115-009-9219-4