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“Self-Packaging” as Personal Brand: Implicit Requirements for Personal Appearance?

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During the economic Depression of the 1930s in the US, motivational writer Napoleon Hill laid the foundation for “personal positioning,” described nearly forty-five years later by marketing executives Al Ries and Jack Trout in Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. By 1997, business writer Tom Peters introduced “personal branding” as self-packaging that communicates an individual’s accomplishments and characteristics, […]

Acknowledge Employer “Concerns” to Get Job Offer

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Usually physically attractive people are positively evaluated by others.  However, women applying for traditionally male jobs may be less positively evaluated.  Female gender coupled with attractive appearance may account for this disadvantage, The “beauty is beastly effect” is a hiring bias favoring men or less attractive women for “masculine” jobs, described by Yale University’s Madeline E. Heilman and […]

Attractiveness Bias in Groups

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Individuals were rated as more attractive when they were observed in a group rather than alone, reported University of California, San Diego’s Drew Walker and Edward Vul. The human perceptual system “computes” average attractiveness of a group (“an ensemble”) and individuals are perceived as more similar to the average group face.This group average is seen as  […]

How Accurate are Personality Judgments Based on Physical Appearance?

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-*How accurate are inferences made from other people’s appearance, including facial expression, posture, and clothing?   Sonoma State University’s Laura Naumann, with Simine Vazire then of Washington University in St. Louis, teamed with University of Cambridge’s Peter Rentfrow, and Samuel Gosling of University of Texas at Austin, to investigate this question. They asked volunteers to rate 10 […]

Attractive Men May Appear Competent, But May Not Be Hired

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Previous blog posts documented bias favouring attractive people for hiring, venture funding, and positive impressions by others. Capable but less attractive individuals may encounter “workplace attractiveness discrimination,” reported Sun Young Lee of University College London, University of Maryland’s Marko Pitesa, Madan Pillutla of London Business School, and INSEAD’s Stefan Thau. Their studies found that people making […]

Plastic Surgery Changes Perceived Personality Traits

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People often infer others’ personality attributes from visual cues, called facial profiling by Georgetown University Hospital’s Michael J. Reilly, Jaclyn A. Tomsic and Steven P. Davison, collaborating with Stephen J. Fernandez of MedStar Health Research Institute.This cognitive shortcut can lead to biased impressions and limited opportunities for those unfavorably judged. These researchers asked raters to evaluate photographs of 30 […]

Gender Transitions Demonstrate Continuing Gender Differences in Pay, Workplace Experience

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People who change gender demonstrate the impact of gender on workplace experience and compensation, while holding constant the person’s education and experience. Two Stanford professors’ experience in gender transition highlight findings by University of Chicago’s Kristen Schilt. Stanford’s Joan Roughgarden, was an evolutionary biologist for more than 25 years as Jonathan Roughgarden before she made […]

Self-Perceived Attractiveness Shapes Views of Social Hierarchies

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Cosmetic surgery is the fastest-growing medical expenditure in the U.S, and Americans spend more on personal grooming than on reading material. Even during the recession of 2008, Americans spent at least $200 billion on products and services to enhance their appearances, according to Stanford’s Margaret Neale and Peter Belmi, now of University of Virginia. Personal […]

Attractive Appearance Helps Men – but not Women – Gain Business Funding

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Entrepreneurs create jobs and contribute to economic growth with early investment by financial backers who trust the perceived business proposal’s viability and the founders’ previous experience. Additional implicit criteria for new venture-funding include gender and physical attractiveness, asserted Harvard’s Alison Wood Brooks, Laura Huang of Wharton, MIT’s Sarah Wood Kearney and Fiona E. Murray. Brooks and […]

Clothing Influences Thinking and Behavior, not Just Others’ Perceptions

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A previous post highlighted the influence of the body on thinking, through “embodied cognition.” An extension of this idea is “unclothed cognition,” the impact of clothing on thinking and behavior, according to Rice University’s Hajo Adam and Adam Galinsky of Northwestern University. Adam and Galinsky considered the symbolic meaning of clothing and wearer’s physical experience by evaluating […]