Problem 6

Question 1

A1 Judge&Cable: How does height influence career success?

Answer 1

Height => social/self esteem => objective/subjective performance => career success

Question 2

A1 Judge&Cable: What are the hypotheses

Answer 2

• Hypothesis 1a (fully supported) ⇒ height is positively related to rise to leadership
• Hypothesis 1b (fully supported) ⇒ height is positively related to earnings
• Hypothesis 2 (partially supported) ⇒ height shows a relationship with status (social and self), job performance, and career succes, with height being most strongly related to status and least to career succes
• Hypothesis 3 (fully supported) ⇒ height is more strongly related to subjective performance outcomes than objective measures of job performance

Question 3

A1 Judge&Cable: Did height have a correlation with work success?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

A1 Judge&Cable:In what order did social esteem, leadership, and performance have a correlation with height?

Answer 4

1. Social esteem
   2.Leadership
   3.Performance

Question 5

A1 Judge&Cable:Was height still sig. correlated with earnings after controlling for gender, age, and weight?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

A1 Judge&Cable:What kind of trend was there in correlations over time? (between height and job earnings)

Answer 6

A slight upward trend

Question 7

A1 Judge&Cable:In what type of jobs was height more relevant?

Answer 7

Sales and management

Question 8

A2 Judge: Physical attractiveness is positively associated with…

Answer 8

…income, educational attainment, and core self-evaluations

Question 9

A2 Judge: GMA is positively associated with…

Answer 9

…income, education level, and core self-evaluations

Question 10

A2 Judge: Educational level is positively associated with…

Answer 10

…income

Question 11

A2 Judge: core self-evaluations are positively associated with…

Answer 11

…income

Question 12

A2 Judge: Which to things have a mediating role for the relationship between physical attractiveness and income?

Answer 12

Educational level and core self-evaluations

Question 13

A2 Judge: Which things have a mediating role between the relationship between GMA and earnings/income?

Answer 13

Educational level and self-evaluations

Question 14

A2 Judge: Income is negatively associated with…

Answer 14

…financial strain

Question 15

A2 Judge: Self-evaluations are negatively associated with…

Answer 15

…financial pressure

Question 16

A2 Judge: What mediates the relationship between core self-evaluations and financial pressure?

Answer 16

Income

Question 17

A3 Kanazawa&Still: What are the 3 possible explanations for the phenomenon that physical attractiveness affects job earnings?

Answer 17

1.Discrimination (beauty premium/ugliness penalty)
2.Occupational self-selection
3.Individual differences

Question 18

A3 Kanazawa&Still: What were the results?

Answer 18

No evidence for the discrimination hypothesis
No evidence for the occupational self-selection hypothesis
There was evidence for the individual differences hypothesis

Question 19

A4 Luxen&van der Vijver: What were the two hypotheses of study 1?

Answer 19

1.Men are more likely to hire attractive women than women are likely to hire attractive men (based on mate selection)
2.Men are more likely to hire attractive men than women are to hire attractive women (based on intra-sexual competition)

Question 20

A4 Luxen&van der Vijver: Were the hypotheses of study 1 confirmed?

Answer 20

Yes, it provides evidence for the attractiveness heuristic

Question 21

A4 Luxen&van der Vijver: Did study 2 reconfirm the findings of study 1?

Answer 21

Yes + the evolved preferences were only found in the high contact intensity condition (not in low-contact)

Question 22

A4 Luxen&van der Vijver: What were the findings of study 3?

Answer 22

HRM professionals were almost as strongly influenced by evolved preferences as in studies 1 and 2 (but not for intra-sexual competition)