This society likes beauty, but that doesn’t mean bad people have no place to use martial arts.
No one can deny that life is much easier when you have beauty. Science also recognizes this, when there are many studies that have shown the benefits of appearance to your health, social relationships, and even the amount of money you make.
Beautiful people are often more confident, better at communicating, and easier to please.
Easy to understand! Beautiful people are often more confident, better at communicating, more approachable, easier to please their bosses, and naturally higher salaries than those who are not pretty.
However, a recent study published in the journal Business and Psychology provides evidence against this notion.
Satoshi Kanazawa from the London University of Economic Sciences (UK) and Mary Still from the University of Massachusetts (Boston, USA) conducted a large-scale survey, over 20,000 young people in the US. Candidates will rate the so-called “glamor” from the age of 16, then three more times until they are 29.
The results show that people with low income are not always low. On the contrary, when some factors such as health and intelligence are included, people with virtues such as diligence and extroversion can earn much more money than the majority.
Notably, people who are classified as extremely ugly, “painful” bad, can make more money than the “unattractive” group, even when compared to people with good looks.
Alex Fradera – a reputable journalist at BPS Digest site gave an explanation for this story. He said that one in five personality factors is “willingness to experience” which can have a lot to do with low income, as well as attractiveness of appearance.
It’s ugly, but the texture is harmonious.
“Many people are very ugly in appearance, and their willingness to experiment is not there. But could this make them more dedicated to a field, and then become superior?” – Fradera shared.
It is known that in the five-factor model, people who are open to experimentation are often artistically inclined with many unique ideas and want to try new things. What about people with low scores on this aspect are more pragmatic, like to focus on one thing, and maybe because of that they become rich?
According to Fradera, this is a significant study, as previous works have generally referred to unattractive people as “bad”, when in reality, visual judgments cannot be so simple.