PG: Could attractiveness could be substituted for charisma effectively in your theory? Perhaps attractiveness is just an element of charisma, but if considered that way, there's a large body of psychological research that backs you up. For example, this abstract lists a only a really tiny sliver of the repeatable results:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6543(199224)62%3A4%3C413%3AEIAJOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L