Perianne
02-13-2016, 01:00 AM
This is an interesting study from Stanford.
Now researchers have found that your perception of your own physical attractiveness has an even greater effect on your mindset than previously suspected. Professor Margaret Neale and doctoral student Peter Belmi of Stanford Graduate School of Business found that seeing yourself as physically attractive leads you to believe you belong in a higher social class.
The series of five studies conducted by Neale and Belmi, with participants that included both men and women, has important implications for research on inequality. If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class yourself and believe, accordingly, that hierarchies are a legitimate way for organizing people and groups. You also are more likely to believe people lower down in a hierarchy are there because they deserve to be. The research also showed that self-perceived physical attractiveness mattered more to people's perception of their social rank than their self-perceived goodness — qualities like empathy and integrity — did.
From the article:
If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class...
I wonder if the opposite is true?
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/researchers-few-bad-hair-days-can-change-your-life
Now researchers have found that your perception of your own physical attractiveness has an even greater effect on your mindset than previously suspected. Professor Margaret Neale and doctoral student Peter Belmi of Stanford Graduate School of Business found that seeing yourself as physically attractive leads you to believe you belong in a higher social class.
The series of five studies conducted by Neale and Belmi, with participants that included both men and women, has important implications for research on inequality. If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class yourself and believe, accordingly, that hierarchies are a legitimate way for organizing people and groups. You also are more likely to believe people lower down in a hierarchy are there because they deserve to be. The research also showed that self-perceived physical attractiveness mattered more to people's perception of their social rank than their self-perceived goodness — qualities like empathy and integrity — did.
From the article:
If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class...
I wonder if the opposite is true?
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/researchers-few-bad-hair-days-can-change-your-life