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It Pays to Be Pretty… In More Ways than One

Homely workers are more likely to be picked on.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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It may not be fair, but the ugly truth is that good-looking people get paid more than unsightly folks. Now it turns out that less attractive workers are more likely to get picked on in the office, too. “Beauty, Personality, and Affect as Antecedents of Counterproductive Work Behavior Receipt,” recently published in the journal Human Performance. Conducted by professors Brent A. Scott of Michigan State University and Timothy A. Judge of the University of Notre Dame, the experiment drew on a pool...

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