There are lots of places in life where the physically attractive get an unfair advantage. They’re perceived as more intelligent, more capable, and happier. They’re even more likely to get elected to a leadership position. The attractive also get more dates, are judged less harshly, and are more easily forgiven.
In the workplace, the positive stereotype is even more prominent. Good-looking people get hired over average looking peers, get paid more, and advance faster. Now, a new psychological study finds they may actually be discriminated against in one specific, yet crucial area of the work sphere, when they seek out low-level positions. Researchers at the London Business School in the UK unearthed this peculiar finding. Their conclusions were published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Attractive people going for low-level, low paying, or entry-level positions find it difficult to get hired, because hiring managers want to put someone in that’ll be satisfied with the job, long-term. A good-looking candidate is seen as too high-maintenance. They’re thought to have a sense of entitlement which will dissolve job satisfaction after the nuance of the position wears off, meaning the company will need to hire for that same position again, sooner rather than later.
We assume that the attractive expect to climb the ladder faster. Credit: Getty Images.
To test their hypothesis, researchers led by doctoral candidate Margaret Lee, put over 750 participants through several simulations.
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