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The effects of facial attractiveness are robust and pandemic, extending beyond initial impressions of strangers to actual interactions with those whom people know and observe. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is strong agreement both within and across cultures about who is and who is not attractive. Further- more, attractiveness is a significant advantage for both children and adults in almost every domain of judgment, treatment, and behavior we examined. The magnitude of attractiveness effects is roughly the same as or larger than that of other important variables in the social sciences. In most cases, the benefits of attractiveness are large enough to be "visible to the naked eye" and are of considerable practical significance. These meta-analyses starkly illuminate the fundamental contradiction between empirical research and maxims about beauty. On the basis of our results, we conclude that the maxims we examined are myths, not reality:
Beauty is more than just in the eye of the beholder
people do judge and treat others with whom they interact based on attractiveness
and, perhaps most surprisingly, beauty is more than just skin-deep.
Found on looksmax