PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS AND THE ACCUMULATION OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN CAPITAL IN ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD: ASSETS AND DISTRACTIONS
Beauty has a well-documented impact on labor market outcomes with both legal and policy implications. This monograph investigated whether this stratification is rooted in earlier developmental experiences. Specifically, we explored how high schools’ ...
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tl;dr Adolescence is possibly the most decisive moment of your life. Attractiveness gives you a massive advantage in every social situation which changes you life trajectory for the best. Being unattractive has the opposite effect, it leads to stigma, bullying and horrible social experiences.
Ironically enough, being looking leads to higher rates of partying, hypersexuality and drug abuse ... but good looking people STILL come out on top despite these issues
CHAD DOES EVERYTHING WRONG ON AVERAGE BUT STILL COMES OUT ON TOP
CHAD DIVES INTO HEDONISM WITH SEX, PARTYING AND DRUGS AND STILL BEATS THE HARDWORKING UGLY GUY THANKS TO SUPERIOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
LOOKS DEFINE YOUR LIFE TRAJECTORY AND HIGH SCHOOL IS A CRUCIAL PERIOD
"[...] good looks may directly smooth the transition to adulthood, both through the diffuse status mechanism (the better looking will find it easier to make new friends and to find a life partner, to be successful in college, and to adjust to the workplace) and the stigma mechanism (the unattractive will experience social isolation and depression). "
"For men, the disadvantage of being unattractive was greater than the advantage of being attractive. Those who were rated as less attractive earned 9% less in hourly earnings than those with average looks; those who were rated as handsome, on the other hand, earned 5% more than those considered to be average looking. For women, the penalty for being unattractive was 5%, and the advantage of being attractive was 4%. Hamermesh and Biddle (1994) "
"Findings pointing to the same general conclusion—attractiveness, or the lack thereof, has a quantifiable impact on labor market outcomes—have been reported in more recent studies (Hamermesh, 2011; Hamermesh, Meng, & Zhang, 2002; Harper, 2000; Hosoda et al., 2003), within specific occupational categories like professor, lawyer, and military officer (Biddle & Hamermesh, 1998; Hamermesh & Parker, 2005; Mueller & Mazur, 1996), and for specific features of physical appearance like height and obesity (Han, Norton, & Stearns, 2009; Loh, 1993). "
"Moreover, although these patterns are often thought to be stronger for women, especially White women, empirical evidence demonstrates that they tend to persist across broad segments of the population (Hamermesh, 2011; Han et al., 2009; Hosoda et al., 2003). "
so people automatically assume that women have it the worst, especially white women, but that that isn't actually the case. Reminds me of the missing white woman syndrom. "As summarized by Webster and Driskell (1983, p. 141–142), attractive people are perceived to “possess almost all types of social advantages that can be measured,” and even seemingly negative attributions, such as the attractive being rated as more likely to have extramarital affairs, suggest that “attractive people are seen as being better at doing something than unattractive ones” (see also Dion, Berscheid, & Walster, 1972; Patzer, 1985). Importantly, such expectations can translate into behavior. Snyder, Tanke, and Berscheid (1977, p. 659) have interpreted such behaviors as produced by self-fulfilling prophecies: "
This is something that has been said many times before on this forum: attractive people receive constant positive reinforcement in every area of their life. Everything they do or say is seen as good and the support they receive only increases their self esteem." Individuals may have different styles of interaction for those whom they perceive to be physically attractive and for those whom they consider unattractive. These differences in interaction style may in turn elicit and nurture behaviors from the target person that are in accord with the stereotype. That is, the physically attractive may actually come to behave in a friendly, likable, sociable manner—not because they necessarily possess these dispositions, but because the behavior of others elicits and maintains behaviors taken to be manifestations of such traits. "
People are more friendly, welcoming and receptive towards good looking people. This makes the good looking person happy and positive. No wonder. Imagine how different your outlook on life would be if everyone treated you like you were Chad. The world would seem like such a better place to you and in turn you'd be delighted to interact with people. Expecting an ugly male to be as positive and outgoing as Chad is like expecting a dog that's been beaten everyday to be friendly with humans.
" In their experiment, young men talking on the phone with a young woman after being shown a photo depicting her as attractive were rated by independent observers to be warmer and more sociable than when the caller had been depicted as unattractive. "
Even phone calls aren't immune to lookism. No wonder women ghosted you or responded to you with one word answers when you tried texting them."Based on status characteristics theory, we thus expect that physically attractive people are viewed positively by others, that these positive attributions lead others to actually treat the good looking more positively, and that this positive treatment elicits more positive social behaviors from them. In a continuous cycle, this process elicits and reinforces socially positive behaviors. This sequence suggests that more attractive adults earn more money because such positive social interactions are rewarded with higher wages. "
In short it goes like this: Chad's good looks make his interactions with people better => this makes Chad happy/positive => this makes his social interactions with people even better => Chad gets promoted. Loop this over years, decades or a lifetime and Chad has a natural edge"The second theoretical perspective, stigma, contends that visible markers of low status or value pose risks to individuals that are rooted in the social nature of identity. In short, a stigmatized characteristic can have negative consequences for the life course because it creates major challenges to healthy identity construction and maintenance. It increases the real or perceived negative feedback from social situations that an individual must then either integrate into the sense of self or explain away. The stronger the stigma, the greater these challenges are—raising the likelihood of a spoiled identity, in which the stigmatized trait dominates social interactions to such an extent that it becomes an outsized force in identity development. This spoiled identity is the opposite of the enhanced identity that can arise from having more valued (and higher status) characteristics (Goffman, 1963; Link & Phelan, 2001). "
Unattractive men are not only discriminated against, they are also pushed hard into self doubt and excessive introspection. Borderline paranoia.This reminds me of the Melvin Pill
" The lower end of the attractiveness continuum (ugliness) is a source of stigma. Indeed, in his classic work on stigma, Goffman (1963, p. 4) highlighted “abominations of the body” that lead to negative labeling. In particular, unattractiveness is a discrediting stigma, in that it is generally visible to others and can set off expectations and evaluations as soon as someone enters into a social interaction (as opposed to a discreditable stigma that may be less obvious; Goffman, 1963). "
Lookism stigma is instantaneous. This completely destroys the whole "work on yourself, get interesting hobbies" because if you're too unattractive, people, especially women, don't even want to get to know you. It's like applying for a job when a company isn't hiring: they don't even wanna hear it. Nothing you could possibly say could convince them."Based on the stigma perspective, we expect that physically unattractive people may be viewed negatively by others, be less often selected for investment and rewards, be treated in such a way that their performance suffers, and, as a result of their poor performance, be frozen out of additional investment and rewards. This sequence suggests that less attractive adults earn less money because of discrimination, opportunities that are withheld from them, and poorer work performance resulting from either of these outcomes. "
"Ample evidence suggests that markers of status, value, and stigma can both enhance and disrupt the trajectories of young people through formal schooling (Crosnoe, 2011). [...] In short, this literature demonstrates that the general tendency for attractive people to be positively perceived by others on a variety of dimensions (adjustment, social skills) extends to children and to the academic domain, with better-looking elementary school-age children rated by others as having higher levels of academic competence (see the meta-analysis by Langlois et al., 2000). "
Lookism is already a thing when you're in elementary school. You can never escape lookism, not even when you're a CHILD."First, as just noted, physical attractiveness has been found to differentiate younger children on a variety of social and academic outcomes, suggesting that early experiences might put children on a trajectory into adolescence in which negative experiences related to looks accumulate. "
Confidence and self esteem are cultivated through life long positive experiences. You don't wake up one day and decide that you'll love or hate yourself. Looks directly impact the quality of your life experiences and those life experiences add up and effect (or even define) your psyche. You can't fake it or ignore it. "Possibly, adolescent experiences may largely reflect carry-over and, therefore, be less important to study than childhood for this topic. Yet, other factors suggest that adolescent experiences reflect more than carry-over. Indeed, the pubertal transition, which usually occurs by the time that high school begins, is one of the few periods in the life course in which dramatic changes in physical appearance are possible (Bogin & Varela-Silva, 2010; Cavanagh, 2004; Martin, 1996). The potential for ugly ducklings to turn into swans, and other kinds of changes, is important theoretically because it points to breaks in the cumulative process. Similarly, the start of high school is a transition period that, for many youth, serves as a turning point in which they can reinvent themselves or break with the past (Schiller, 1999). "
" Stakes rise as developmental change, including brain and identity development, increases the social orientation of young people and the importance they place on social acceptance, and as high school curricula become more structured and competitive than in earlier stages of schooling (Crosnoe & Johnson, 2011; Schneider, 2007; Steinberg, 2008). "
This is super important: Adolescence has a stronger effect on your life trajectory than childhood because of puberty AND the fact that adolescence is far more competitive. No wonder. This is when sex becomes a thing and moggers start to truly arise." Second, high schools are the most proximate feeder into the institutions of postsecondary education that have become increasingly crucial to future socioeconomic attainment (Schneider, 2007).
In turn, social problems in high school that interfere with academic progress (including the potential stratifying role of attractiveness) and disrupt college matriculation can have cascading ramifications well beyond the high school years (Crosnoe, 2011; Masten & Cicchetti, 2010)."
Obviously high school has an important effect on your academical trajectory. So many NEETs choose to give up on work/education because they've been mogged and bullied too much in high school, they quit life." Thus, in addition to the possibility that different standards of physical attractiveness could be at work across schools, the degree to which physical attractiveness is socially rewarded and the academic implications of those social rewards are likely to differ depending on the school context. Indeed, Coleman (1961) showed that physical attractiveness was only strongly linked to cheerleading in certain schools, and Crosnoe (2011) showed that obesity was only related to academic outcomes in schools in which it was heavily stigmatized. "
I find this interesting because this shows that if people don't bully you much for a certain trait then that trait won't seem to hold you back.So bluepillers can fuck off. They always say "ooooh being [short/bald/ugly] is all in your head! Nobody cares! You're the one holding yourself back", which is complete bullshit. You don't go out of your way to become insecure, shy and a failure for no reason.
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