# Facial Attractiveness and Group Identity Influence Decision‐Making

**Authors:** Junchen Shang, Kaiyin Zhong

PMC · DOI: 10.1002/pchj.70004 · PsyCh Journal · 2025-02-24

## TL;DR

This study shows that women are more likely to accept unfair offers in a game if the proposer is attractive or part of their group.

## Contribution

The study reveals how attractiveness and group identity influence fairness decisions in economic interactions.

## Key findings

- Participants accepted unfair offers more often from attractive proposers.
- Participants accepted unfair offers more often from in-group proposers.

## Abstract

This study examined the impact of facial attractiveness and group identity of male proposers on the fairness decision‐making of female participants in an ultimatum game. Results showed that participants were more likely to accept unfair offers from both attractive proposers and in‐group proposers.

## Full-text entities

- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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