Modern society places strong emphasis on physical attractiveness and facial beauty. The face is thought to be an important feature in the determination of human physical attractiveness [1]. Over the years there were significant changes in the standard of facial esthetic, so orthodontists must be updated about what the population considers an ideal face [2]. From the patient’s point of view, est...

extended abstract 1. introduction judgments regarding one’s beauty typically takes place based on their faces. symmetry, youth, succulence and familiarity are the important aspects concerning biological standards of beauty. the results of studies show that a beautiful face is coded in our brain in a way that children, even during the first week after their birth, would gaze upon a beautiful fac...

Attractive individuals are evaluated and treated more positively than unattractive individuals (Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, & Longo, 1991; Feingold, 1992; Langlois et al., 2000). In the present research, we try to find ways to reduce attractiveness bias in hiring decisions. Experiment 1 examined the influence of warning participants about bias. Warnings were ineffective, however: Even warned par...

Handling Editor: John Antonakis ings of physical attractiveness. Studies 1 and 2 show that subordinates rate the leaders of their inPhysical attractiveness is most commonly presumed to be an exogenous characteristic that influences people's feelings, perceptions, and behavior across myriad types of relationships.We investigate the opposite prediction in which feelings toward other people influe...

Evolutionary psychology suggests that a woman's sexual attractiveness is based on cues of health and reproductive potential. In recent years, research has focused on the ratio of the width of the waist to the width of the hips (the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR). A low WHR (i.e. a curvaceous body) is believed to correspond to the optimal fat distribution for high fertility, and so this shape should b...

Although substantial literatures attest to the psychosocial impact of individuals' physical attractiveness and the centrality of physical self-concept, or body image, to global self-concept, little research has examined the relationship of these two variables to depression. Accordingly, in the present study, 224 college men and women completed alfective and cognitive measures of body image, the...

Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and previous experience are regarded as the main criteria for investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteri...

Cognitive models of social phobia stress the importance of a negatively biased mental representation of ones social performance and appearance in maintenance of the disorder. People with social phobia (N=57) and non-clinical controls (N=41) engaged in a public speech and also completed several measures of perceived attributes including speech performance, physical attractiveness, and personal p...

The present study examined the effects of early pubertal development and physical attractiveness on the popularity, body image, and self-esteem of over 200 sixth-grade girls. Two rival hypotheses were explored. The first suggests that physically attractive girls, because of their more favorable social environment, will exhibit fewer psychosocial difficulties than unattractive girls during puber...