Psychologists have found that beautiful people are considered smart and responsible.

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The people around him tend to give positive qualities to beautiful people. Article about it published In Current Psychology.

To find out, Carlotta Batres of Franklin and Marshall College and her colleagues conducted a study involving 11,000 volunteers from 45 countries. People were asked to rate the faces of 60 men and 60 women in the photographs on 13 scales: attractiveness, aggression, affection, trust, dominance, emotional stability, intelligence, meanness, responsibility, sociability, reliability, unhappiness, and awkwardness.

When analyzing the volunteers’ responses, it turned out that attractiveness was positively associated with conditional positive traits such as trust, intelligence, and responsibility, and negatively with negative traits such as maliciousness and aggression. This result was approximately the same for participants from all countries. “The results of our study reveal what I call the ‘beauty glasses’ effect, where attractiveness overshadows judgments about personality,” said the study leader.

Scientists believe that this conclusion should be taken into account by those whose job it is to evaluate people, whether they are jurors or HR managers of a business.

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