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Voted : I don't give preference to attractive people
Not consciously at least, but the blogger is right, ugly people are treated with disdain sometimes. There's also another thing to it: if an employer wants to hire staff for his company it will almost invariably choose the good looking candidates even if the ugly ones have the same or better qualifications.
Voted : I don't give preference to attractive people
Seamus is right, though.
by mojo on Tue Jan 23, 07 9:17am
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Voted : I do give preference to attractive people
Yes, attractive people do get better treatment, and I know I am inclined to be more generous in my behavior toward attractive women. Oh, those hormones.
Voted : Don't know
I certainly try not to. The part at the end sounds sad.
Voted : I do give preference to attractive people
Yes, I know.
Voted : Comment
No it's definitely not just you larry. This is a very thoroughly researched phenomenon. Here's a quote from a book on Social Psychology:
"(...) Over the past thirty-five years, many researchers have examined this stereotype, and two separate meta-analyses of these studies reveal that physically attractive people are perceived to be more sociable, successful, happy, dominant, sexually warm, mentally healthy, intelligent, and socially skilled than those who are unattractive."
Attractive people actually do tend to be more socially skilled, because people are drawn to them -- thus fostering more diverse socialization.
Additionally, physical attractiveness has a moderate impact on job-related outcomes such as hiring, salary, and promotions.
From a sociological perspective, attractiveness is idealized (with some variation between cultures obviously.) From a biological perspective, attractiveness (such as symmetrical facial features) signifies fitness to procreate.
- Being aware of this actually drives me to pay more attention to "plain-looking" folks since they tend to have to try harder to be accepted -- (not to imply this is black-or-white; most people are "average-looking".) But I just can't seem to fight the biology, which makes me feel a bit shallow at times.
Ugly people are a MAJORITY! We're taking over!
Voted : Comment
I have seen super-attractive people treated better than others with less than stellar appearance.
Maybe if more of us told of it to the manager of the restaurant, shop, etc, things would change. Maybe not.
Voted : I don't give preference to attractive people
Unfortunately, we live in a world where "America's Next Top Model" gets more viewership than C-SPAN.
Voted : I don't give preference to attractive people
however i do give preference to people who are polite and pleasant and show kindness
Voted : i do give preference to attractive men
lol
especially when they butter me up :)
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