Posted on 01/03/2008 5:08:30 PM PST by blam
Hiring Practices Influenced By Beauty
ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2008) — A new study finds that the attractiveness of interviewees can significantly bias outcome in hiring practices, showing a clear distinction between the attractive and average looking interviewees in terms of high and low status job packages offered.
“When someone is viewed as attractive, they are often assumed to have a number of positive social traits and greater intelligence,” say Carl Senior and Michael J.R. Butler, authors of the study. “This is known as the ‘halo effect’ and it has previously been shown to affect the outcome of job interviews.” The study explored the influence of the halo effect in a mock job negotiation scenario where male and female interviewers were shown pictures of attractive or average looking male and female job applicants.
Female interviewers were found to allocate attractive looking male interviewees more high status job packages than the average looking men. Female interviewers also gave more high status job packages to attractive men than to attractive women. Average looking men also received more low status job packages than average looking women. Male interviewers did not differ in the number of high or low status job packages that were given to attractive looking interviewees of either sex, though the male interviewers gave out more low status job packages overall, irrespective of the sex of the interviewee.
However, the male interviewers were not entirely without bias. The electrodermal response (EDR), a psycho-physiological response measured when emotions are used to make a preferential decision, of the interviewers was measured. When emotions are used to make a preferential decision, it is thought that the anticipatory EDR level increases.
There was a highly significant increase in the anticipatory EDR when the male interviewers assigned the low status job packages to the attractive female candidates. The fact that this difference only occurred when assigning low status job packages ensures that the effect could not have been driven by interpersonal attraction, but rather by emotion. Female interviewers did not exhibit any significant EDR differences, suggesting their bias occurs on a cognitive level.
This study is the first application of EDR to examine the influential role of beauty, status and sex during job negotiations. “From a business point-of-view, there is a need for leaders/managers to be aware of their assumptions in decision-making processes, be they strategic or operational, and that they may be prone to emotion and bias,” say the authors.
This study, entitled “Interviewing strategies in the face of beauty: A psychophysiological investigation into the job negotiation process,” is published in volume 1118 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Corporate Thinking.
Adapted from materials provided by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Who the hell wants to work around a bunch of ugly people?
Beauty and Smarts are not enough.LOL.
I 'll take a smart plain jane with character anyday.
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http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23001223-952,00.html?from=mostpop
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BEAUTY queen and law student Kumari Fulbright has been arrested in a horrifying tale of armed robbery and torture.
The Miss Arizona contestant, 27, has been charged with multiple offences over the kidnap and torture of an ex-boyfriend.
Kumari Fulbright also allegedly bit him during his ordeal, in which he was tied up and threatened over a ten-hour period in two different houses in Arizona, USA.
Meanwhile, two brothers who allegedly helped her in the deed are fugitives from justice.
( read rest at link)
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( Kumari Fulbright)
Character matters. I really do find that Kumari chick repulsive and gross.
Dang!
I must admit it was a factor in me being hired several times.
In my experience, the plain lookers usually have a lot more positive character traits.
Not guilty!
Guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt! Throw away the key!
Megan Kelly on Fox is looking extra smokin’ tonight.
“Hiring Practices Influenced By Beauty”
Most Freepers must be hitting those Iowa primary/caucuses threads
really, really hard tonight.
That’s about the best explanation I can think of for there not being a
“Captain Obvious” or “Master Of The Obvious” graphic on this thread yet!!!
That second photo wrenches at my heart. How can anyone so smart be so stupid?
You know, some of my fondest memories have been about ladies who were plain, because they thought they were plain but were truly beautiful.
Show a plain jane how beautiful she truly is, and you will be married in a heartbeat. Thats what happened to me, and I haven't regretted it for a moment.( Now why did I dredge up those old memeories , LOL!)
True story: A very attractive woman I know has a bunch of very attractive female friends, all of whom are studying auto repair, going for certification, diagnostics, etc.
This woman I know is an entreprenuer who is looking to open a hottie-female auto repair shop (think the “Hooters” of auto shops) in which those who bring their cars in for service will be welcome to watch the ladies repair their autos. The ladies will be as revealingly attired as possible, while still being attired safely, considering the type of work they will be doing.
She is debating what to call the auto repair shop, but names she has tossed around include “Under the Hood,” “Pumping Pistons,” and a number of possible names involving the respective terms/words “overheated engines” and, of course, “lubes” and “lube jobs.”
I hope she makes a mint.
This is Chelsea’s real dad!!!
You've never heard the expression, "Politics is show business for ugly people"?
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