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With the caveat that I haven't actually read the paper, and am deeply suspicious of most psychology research...

A poker playing friend of mine is a psychology major. Last spring she told me about a paper she read which seems to apply to this question. If I remember the set up properly, a group of subjects were offered an obviously even money wager for even money against two different opponents. One was an attractive, masculine looking man, and the other was a dumpy, less masculine looking guy. Apparently, people were more willing to take the bet against the ugly guy.

I guess the obligatory discussion of the whole Poker Essays optimal image/game thing should follow here, so dress well for limit HE, poorly for big bet?... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I for one, am much less likely to call the ratty looking guy with the dirty t-shirt purchased with marlboro miles than the I-banking putz in the Thomas Pink shirt sipping on his gimlet...