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This is a trip…I used to date a very good looking man who I thought had it all until the day he lost his job. He was devastated, and he kept saying that he thought he was being singled out because his superiors didn’t like him because he was good looking and dressed nice. At the time I thought, please you are just making excuses but little did I know that he may have been right. Read on…
You might think that good-looking men have every advantage in life. But a new study suggests being handsome may not always work in a man’s favour – at least when it comes to his career.
The research claims that attractive men are less likely to be given a job in a competitive workplace because they intimidate bosses.
‘It’s not always an advantage to be pretty,’ says Marko Pitesa, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. ‘It can backfire if you are perceived as a threat.’ Interestingly, in Pitesa’s study, it was male attractiveness in particular, rather than female beauty, that made the most difference.
If the interviewer expected to work with the candidate as part of a team, then he preferred good-looking men. However, if the interviewer saw the candidate as a potential competitor, the interviewer discriminated in favour of unattractive men.
The results suggest that interviewers were not blinded by beauty, and instead calculated which candidate would further their own career.
‘The way we explain it here, pretty men just seem more competent, so it is actually subjectively rational to discriminate for or against them.’
On a deeper level, she adds, the behaviour remains irrational, since there’s no evidence that a real link exists between looks and competence.
Well, that’s not fair. Ladies, next time you get approached a fine brother with no job, give him a break! It’s probably not his fault…
Source: Bossip
