Beautiful people earn 12% more than Ugly Bettys--EXPLODE--http://digg.com/business_finance/Beautiful_people_earn_12_more_than_Ugly_Bettys--EXPLODE--The researchers said: "Beautiful people tend to be in more successful teams because other team members are more co-operative in the presence of beautiful people." Good looks have what social scientists call the halo effect. Because someone is attractive, we assign many other positive attributes to him or her that have nothing to do with looks."