If you ever felt like the most attractive people always have the greatest career success, you may be on to something.
As it turns out, success, at least in some part, is skin deep.
Of course attractive people aren’t always dealt the best cards — just more frequently than the rest of us average joes.
Here’s how being attractive influences success:
Drake Baer contributed to reporting in this article.
Mobius and Rosenblat's experiments also found physical attractiveness to raise social and communication skills, which in return raise an employer's estimate of the worker's productivity.
This has a major impact over the course of a career. Research shows that raising kids' social skills is a better predictor of lifetime earnings than raising their intellectual ability.
As Business Insider's Shana Lebowitz previously reported, research suggests that men are more likely to tolerate unfairness from attractive women.
During a study out of Zhejiang University's School of Management in China, Chinese men between ages 18 and 26 looked at 300 photographs of faces of Chinese women who had previously been rated attractive or unattractive by another group of men. They were then shown a photo of one of the women and asked to decide whether to accept the woman's offer to split a sum of money.
The men were more likely to accept unfair offers when the woman was attractive than when she was unattractive.
Believe it or not, however, not all bias towards attractive people is beneficial to them.
As Heidi Grant Halvorson explains in her book, 'No One Understands You And What To Do About It,' a job interviewer's ego may be threatened if she is less attractive than the candidate she's interviewing, and it's likely she'd choose to go the route of avoiding competition by simply not hiring her.
And numerous studies bear this out.
'No one actually says to himself or herself, much less to others, I am threatened by this person, so there is no way I'm hiring this applicant,' Halverson says, 'but that's exactly what happens.'
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