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Physical appearance plays a significant role in occupational prestige and its impact is constant over a person's employment history.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027656241200056X</ref>
Physical appearance plays a significant role in occupational prestige and its impact is constant over a person's employment history.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027656241200056X</ref>
What is more, people automatically associate physical attractiveness with various positive traits to an unreasonable degree, e.g. a good personality, humor, morality, intelligence and health ([[halo effect]]), especially initially.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are</ref>
What is more, people automatically associate physical attractiveness with various positive traits to an unreasonable degree, e.g. a good personality, humor, morality, intelligence and health ([[halo effect]]), especially initially.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are</ref>
This bias may even affect how parents treat their offspring.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/health/ugly-children-may-get-parental-short-shrift.html</ref> In contrast to most peoples' intuitive expectations, looks are only weakly related to health and even less with morality or cognitive ability, which suggests beauty and symmetry [[Fisherian runaway|evolved only because they look good]], not because they indicate any other positive traits.
This bias may even affect how parents treat their offspring.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/health/ugly-children-may-get-parental-short-shrift.html</ref> In contrast to most peoples' intuitive expectations and strong presumptions, looks are only weakly (but consistently) related to [[Beauty#Statisics|health]] and cognitive ability, and less so, morality.
Taken together, these research findings suggest that human preferences for physical appearance are largely innate, cross-cultural, and probably result from aesthetic [[sexual selection]] and [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selection]], rather than from cultural evolution or even [[social constructionism|social construction]].


==Women care about looks==
==Women care about looks==
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