Physical Attractiveness Social Network Location and Performance in the Military

<p>The purpose of this research was to provide insight into the effect of physical attractiveness on social network location and performance in a military environment. This study sought to prove five hypotheses which were introduced through a comprehensive literature review regarding the many interactions between physical attractiveness social network location and objective and subjective performance ratings. Specifically a mediation and moderation model were proposed to capture the relationships between the three variables. For mediation a causal relationship was found from physical attractiveness to centrality to performance. In other words physical attractiveness influences centrality which in turn influences performance. Moderation results suggest that physically attractiveness influences the relationship between social network centrality and both objective and subjective performance. In other words physical attractiveness appears to hinder the relationship between centrality and performance such that more attractive individuals with high centrality perform worse than less attractive individuals of similar centrality.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>