What makes you popular: beauty, personality or intelligence?

Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Francesca Grippa, Elisa Battistoni, Peter A. Gloor and Agostino La Bella

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2018, vol. 35, issue 2, 162-186

Abstract: This study explores the determinants of popularity within friendship and advice networks. We involved almost 200 college students in an experiment to predict how personality traits, self-monitoring, creativity, intelligence, energy, and beauty influence the development of friendship and advice networks. Our results indicate that physical attractiveness is a key to develop both friendship and task-related interactions, whereas perceived intelligence and creativity play an important role in the advice network. Our findings seem to support the idea that there might be a kernel of truth in the stereotype that attractiveness correlates with positive social traits and successful outcomes.

Keywords: advice network; friendship network; social networks; personality; intelligence; attractiveness; creativity; peer selection; peer influence. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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