Ridiculously good looking? You're not going to get the job.
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Men who are very good looking are less likely to be given a job in a competitive workplace than their plainer counterparts, a new study suggests.
Jaime Sanchez, a self confessed extremely good looking man: "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking"
The advantages of being considered good looking are numerous and, to most of us, obvious.
But a new study suggests being a handsome man like Jaime Sanchez may not be entirely plain sailing.
Good-looking men are less likely to be given a job in a competitive workplace environment than their plainer competitors, according to a set of experiments carried out by researchers at the University of Maryland.
This is because attractive men are often seen as more competent, and so those who will be working alongside them are unlikely to want increased competition.
Marko Pitesa, the author of the study, gave the example of car salesmen, who are officially working with each other but at the same time competing for business.
Pitesa led four related experiments, in which volunteers were asked to “hire” from a selection of candidates who had been previously ranked by researches as attractive and unattractive.
While the attractive men were more likely to be hired to work in a team environment, unattractive men had the advantage in a competitive one.
Pitesa said: “In situations where there are subtle or less subtle cues of competition among colleagues then the fact that attractive men are seen as more competent is going to create a disadvantage for attractive men.”
He added: “I was taken by the fact that people were unaware of [their bias].”
“People make these important job decisions and inferences about how competent people are just based on their physical attractiveness without having the slightest clue that they’re doing that.”
A study earlier this year found volunteers were inclined to assume good-looking men were more selfish than plain men - though tests on the models later showed the volunteers’ initial assumption was likely to be incorrect.
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