Are Beautiful People Really Always One Step Ahead in Life?

Especially on social media under a photo or video ‘how ugly this woman is, she shares with this type without shame‘ or ‘look at the guy, look at the woman next to you‘ you have seen comments that judge people only by their appearance.

Unfortunately, this behavior of judging people based on their beauty is not only seen on social media. In fact, it has very serious effects in every field from business life to working life. Come together what putting ‘beauty’ in the center can result Let’s take a look.

Important note before we start: Make sure you get the thought out of your mind: “Others may be doing it, but I wouldn’t do it anyway.” Because this is another mistake that affects your thoughts.

“beauty is good” (or is it not?)

The sentence you see in quotation marks is the one that settles in people’s minds. a stereotypical thought we can say.

We will explain in more detail under the headings, but let’s give the main message. People who have this thought (which can be acquired without even realizing it) beauty standards sees fit people one step ahead of others.

Let’s open the word beauty:

Here the standards are both relative to society. period to period changes and does not include the male/female distinction.

So society as beautiful determined by face elements, waist thinness, etc. a woman with different elements can also enter this title; same way men too.

But we can also place the beauty in different titles by looking at the subject backwards (Don’t get confused)

In this thought, beautiful people automatically successful and healthy they are expected to be.

In the same way, people who have this idea can also (directly or indirectly) of people they know to be healthy and successful without seeing their faces. beauty standards expects them to comply. So without realizing it oppression may occur.

After giving the rough idea, let’s start by looking at the place of this situation in the business world:

Since it would not be reliable to talk without concrete data here, let’s mention a few studies that we have looked at in detail.

Professor of Psychology Madeline Heilman In a signed study, university students are given the CVs of recent graduates and asked to examine and evaluate them.

by society male or female job Evaluating genders according to occupations seen as higher evaluated with grades

But this was the case only for men:

Men who are judged to be beautiful are also eligible for both occupations. deemed appropriate. But beautiful women only for women It was advantageous in the jobs deemed suitable.

The reason for this is simple. Women who are seen as beautiful feminine Since it is considered to have characteristics masculinity It was believed that they would be inadequate in the jobs that required them. Note that this is a 1979 study.

So why can’t we just accept this as true?

Because this study was done in a laboratory environment and the people observed were aware that this experiment would be a result. especially He may have acted impartially.

This situation began to be known as the “Beauty is beastly” effect.

Due to this effect, there is a possibility that things will affect beautiful people badly. To see this, Professor of Psychology by Comila Shahani-Denning We took a look at his work.

In the aforementioned study, Shahani; to deal with employees who are seen as attractive, unattractive, and average with observers working and they are asked to discipline these people.

As a result, beautiful people are held more accountable when they make mistakes. Attractive non- for people, these mistakes are just ‘bad luck‘ is evaluated. In other words, we can say that the effect we are talking about is reversed here.

So which one should we believe? Is beauty good or bad at work?

The data Shahani obtained from different studies show that beautiful people in their workplaces it is advantageous supports.

When we look at the beauty is beastly effect, we see that such effective results cannot be obtained from different studies. At least in recruitment this is how the situation is.

Finally, something we can discuss:

What methods can employers use to make sure candidates are not biased towards beauty in the selection of recruiters?

This was the case with recruitment. So how is the situation in the judiciary?

Here by John E. Stewart We took a look at a research paper from 1980 that focused on the effects of attractiveness in judgment.

In this study, observers attend certain hearings and its attractiveness was evaluating.

In total, varying attractiveness values 67 defendants and after a review of the sentences these defendants received, less time They were found to be punished.

Of course, gender can also play a role in this case:

On this subject too Angela Ahola and Åke Hellström’s 2009 study sheds light on it. In the study in question, photographs of people with various degrees of beauty and processed that they might crimes are given to the observed group.

As a result, against women a softer attitude it seems to be. But let’s point out that this is only against beautiful women. Such a situation was not observed in men.

To see an example of this Casey Anthony Check out the case.

As we know in education, your appearance doesn’t matter. At least we know that pretty/handsome people don’t fill papers faster:

But according to certain studies, the ‘anti-beautiful people’expectation‘ higher than the others.

It’s on those people oppression Don’t think of it as creating it, because that’s something we’ve excluded. It’s more in the head here”he must be clever, he must be clever“There is a thought. But this is not even noticed.

In this context, teachers can automatically expect better results from their relatively beautiful students:

In addition, the future of those students to see brightThere are also situations where they think that qualities such as leadership will develop.

This expectation may create a special interest in those students, which may lead them to be more successful. But get out beautiful or handsome Can we say they are successful because they are?

Of course we can’t say, but there is no room for stereotypical sentences in science:

That’s why (not what is expected from outside) the real success is related to beauty. about whether many studies have been done.

When we look at the work by Dorian G. Mitchem, we automatically see people who look good. your beautiful degrees We can see what is expected.

But when it comes to concrete data Mitchemshows, along with many other studies, that beauty is not linked to academic achievement.

It was seen that the closest factors related to academic success were regularity, meticulousness and hard work.

So when we look at studies on education, what does all this mean?

In predicting academic success, people are attracted to beauty. that you misled we told you. Simply, if this disappears, more accurate predictions will be made.

Of course, this situation is not that easy to get rid of. a controlled objectivity requires.

What exactly is attractive when looking at the face?

One of two people who come to a job interview and offer the same thing. sleepy If one facial expression is seen and his general cleanliness is not as good as the other, as if down may appear.

More importantly, the well-groomed and sleepless faces health and order Since it is thought to point to the beauty standards, these faces fit perfectly.

But do beautiful-looking faces really indicate health and order?

Bachelor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts S. Michael Kalickfocused on this in one of his studies.

As a result of his study, it was found that such estimates made according to the appearance of the people are actually the ‘actual’ health estimates. got ahead of found.

Of course, let’s open parenthesis here and state that unconscious facial expressions or other facial expressions that can change according to time are excluded. when sick we all look paler after all.

In this study, no patients healthy individuals and estimates are made accordingly.

If it goes like this, and people who look ‘beautiful’ are chosen all the time, ‘overgeneralization’ can occur after a while:

This means: When you go to a job interview where you meet every need, just because your appearance did not meet the beauty requirements of that period. you may not get that job.

So at that point a standard becomes established and the need of the job moves out of the specialty and into the view, even if no one notices it.

This is of coursealso choose people who are not beautifulIt doesn’t mean “. The important thing is to stay neutral to objective data to be able to focus. You can also share your thoughts in the comment section.