April 17, 2006
Study: Positive-feedback-loop explains why beautiful people are paid more
collision detection: Study: Positive-feedback-loop explains why beautiful people are paid more
Physical beauty produces a virtuous feedback loop. People constantly give you the sense that you’re better than everyone else, so you begin to believe it yourself — which just means that everyone is more likely to pick up on your radiant self-aura, and assess you even more highly. This, of course, falls squarely into the “yeah, I pretty much knew that already” camp of social-science research. But it’s always nice have new data confirming one’s grim opinion of humanity. It tracks nicely with recent findings that parents are more likely to be violent and neglectful with ugly children than with cute ones. Or the recent study finding that tall people make more than shorter ones — an extra $789 in annual pay per inch, in fact.
Pretty interesting. Perhaps instead of college for everyone, plastic surgery may be in order. Hm!
Also goes to show how buggy our human brains continue to be.
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