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How should we tackle financial and prosocial biases against unattractive people?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2017

Francesca Minerva
Francesca Minerva*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, University of Ghent, 9000 Ghent, [email protected]
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Abstract

The fact that attractive people benefit from their good looks is not bad per se. Rather, what is worrisome is the fact that unattractive people are discriminated against, and that such discrimination negatively affects many aspects of their lives. I focus on the moral implications of this discrimination and on the possible measures that could be taken to alleviate it.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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