By: Laura Meyers

From the Department of No Shit, Sherlock… comes a new study that says good-looking people can get away with more than their ugly counterparts.

A new study conducted by Chinese psychologists and recently published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience found that men are more likely to accept an unfair offer when it comes from a beautiful woman.

Yeah… duh, they’re called strip clubs.

The new research suggests that female beauty undermines the brain’s reaction to fairness and unfairness, which in turn skewed the men’s judgments.

Muahahaha. Female privilege?

“The results are in line with previous findings in the area: people behave nicely toward attractive people,” University of Stirling psychologist Anthony Little. “This study finds that people are also more forgiving toward attractive people when they behave ‘unfairly’ in the game, which suggests that attractive people can get away with being meaner in life because their beauty means that people forgive them.”

Huffington Post reports:

For the study, 21 male students at a Chinese university were asked to view 300 photographs of the faces of Chinese women — half of whom had been rated attractive and half unattractive by a different group of men. Then, the men played a computer game in which they were teamed up with some of the women whose faces they had just viewed. In the game, they viewed the women’s faces and then decided whether to accept their proposal to split a small cash sum. Meanwhile, the researchers measured their brain waves and response times. What did they find? As hypothesized, the men were more likely to accept an unfair offer when it came from an attractive woman. When the “proposers” were attractive women, the men were both quicker to respond to fair offers and slower to respond to unfair offers. The brain scans of the male subjects revealed greater reward activation when the attractive women proposed offers, as well as a heightened sensitivity and dissatisfaction with unfair offers when the women were unattractive.

So you’re telling me it pays to be pretty? And I also need oxygen to live? Okay, thanks for the tip.

“In some of these economic game studies, where people forgive attractive people or offer more money to attractive people, the people playing will never actually meet. So, we appear to have a bias toward being nice to attractive people even when the rewards to ourselves, such as increasing the chance of a date, wouldn’t apply,” Little said. “This suggests our motivations to be nice to attractive people are unlikely to be based on conscious decisions to maximize our own benefits.”

I thought we already knew this… or do people think we watch the Kardashians for their stunning intellect?