Harvard economist Markus Mobius and Wesleyan University economist Tanya Rosenblat published the seminal paper “Why Beauty Matters” in 1994. The research says we’re more likely to view them as intelligent, healthy, and socially capable simply because they look good - consider the “handsome bubble” that Jon Hamm’s hapless doctor played on 30 Rock. That’s a long-term result of the halo effect: If someone is “easy on the eyes,” the enjoyment we derive from looking at them colors our perceptions of other attributes. The most deflating example is a finding called the “beauty premium,” which states that the wealth gap between the hot and the not is like those between sexes and ethnicities.
They get ahead in life in many ways (spoiler alert: teachers call on cute kids), but they run into problems all their own. Digging into the psychology literature, there’s ample evidence that super-hot people are indeed perceived differently.
Basically it was more about the way that people had a problem with a girl looking like a woman because it confused them, it made them feel uncomfortable and I think there was a lot of guilt that they wanted to induce.”īeing perceived differently - is there a more apt way to describe the experience of being beautiful? Some of us stop traffic, some cabs would happily run over. “I started to realise that I was being perceived differently” in puberty, she tells the Evening Standard.
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