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This theory was observed in a study done by Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster in 1972 they set out to answer the question “Do individuals in fact have stereotyped notions of the personality traits possessed by individuals of varying attractiveness”. When the students arrived at the rooms they were assigned they were told that by the experimenters they wanted to test how well the students could read a person by just seeing a photo of them. The experimenters also told the students they were being compared to individuals that had been trained to be able to read a person based on body language and other interpersonal skills. The Students were then given three envelope which contained a single photo of either a female or male around the subjects age with three different degrees of attractiveness. In the experiment the researcher categories the photos as average, attractive and unattractive. The experimenters began to ask the students a series of questions related to personality which were given mathematical value to be about to calculate in the experiment. The students were also asked about personal questions such as “do you think this individual has a happy marriage?”. Lastly, the students had to tell the experimenter how successful the individual in the photo were to. The results of the study showed that indeed those were deemed more attractive scores higher in having better jobs, personality, and overall have better marriage. One factor that attractive individuals score low on if they would make good parents.

Deleting content from the Overview: Studies have found that Western people are more willing to listen to and believe people who are judged, by conventional standards, to be aesthetically attractive.In less-individualistic cultures, beautiful people are assumed to have traits that those cultures value, such as concern for others, loyalty and integrity. Regarding the perception of beauty in the East, Wheeler and Kim  found that university students in Korea saw beautiful people as more trustworthy and concerned for others. But they did not share the North American university students' bias towards perceiving beautiful people as more self-assertive and dominant than less attractive people. This can be seen in myths and fairy tales as well as films throughout history: the 'goodies' are young and beautiful, whereas the 'baddies' are ugly. Previous studies have found a recognition bias for information consistent with the physical attractiveness stereotypeThe stereotype acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy where the perception of attractive people as more valuable members of society leads to their receiving preferential treatment, positive feedback and tangible benefit. Studies have found that attractiveness does correlate positively with some traits such as personal income, social skills and self-confidence. This cognitive bias could be considered to be a specific kind of halo effect. Studies show that teachers perceive attractive children as more intellectual, more engaged in school and more likely to succeed academically than unattractive children. This is because teachers have been shown to have more positive interactions with attractive children. In addition other studies show that customers' perceptions of quality of service is boosted by physical attractiveness.

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Physical attractiveness can have a significant effect on how people are judged in terms of employment or social opportunities, friendship, sexual behavior, and marriage. In many cases, humans attribute positive characteristics, such as intelligence and honesty, to attractive people without consciously realizing it. Physically attractive individuals are regarded more positively and accurately in first impressions, however the physical attractiveness stereotype will have bias opinions and decisions when comparing people of different attractiveness levels.

A study done by Pfeifer noted a positive correlation between physical appearance and wages. More attractive people are, on average, more likely to be employed and have a higher wage than their normal counterpart. According to this study, the estimated effects of the interviewer rating, generally, have a larger impact on men than for on women, while self-ratings (of attractiveness) have a larger effect on women than on men. However, in this study, the rating from others (in this case, the interviewer) have a larger effect than self-rating. "The wage effects of attractiveness are nonlinear for men, which implies that wage punishment for unattractiveness is larger than wage premium for attractiveness, and linear for women."

Another study( wanted to answer the question if individuals would associate higher job stability with attractive people. The results showed that they did in fact favor their hypothesis. Those we were deemed less attractive were correlated to having much lower job stability compared to attractive individuals. It also highlighted how higher salary jobs we also associated with the more attractive individuals.

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Based on the original study done by Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster in 1972 it has sparked many other scientists to test the theory in different way in the past century. One example would be a study done in 2011 that wanted to know if attractiveness had an effect on and individual’s ability to memorize or remember certain things. The researcher used the same sample group of university student as well as the three scales of attractiveness as seen in the original study. In this specific experiment there were positive and negative words written on the images that were shown to the participants. They had to remember the exact word with the correct face. The students had to click through the gallery of face with a mouse they were also given no time limit to decrease the likelihood of another variable affecting the results of the experiment. The result of their first experiment showed that the students were more likely to positive remember words that were linked to an individual who was attractive as well as the students having remembered negative words when they were paired with a unattractive photo.

Also in 1991 a group of researchers compiled the results of many of these studies. They compiled the research by using mathematic equations. As the researchers calculated they ensured to discard any outliner that affected the calculations. While their results were consistent with what was found in the original experiment.

Researcher found that even minor changes to appearance could evoke a different response or led to more judgement. This was seen in a study where the slightly changed the color/ shade of teeth to see if it would illicit a negative response which would cause the participates to stereotype. When the lightened the teeth more positives qualities were attributed to those individuals. When they were darken or make more yellow negative qualities were associated.

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Studies show that teachers perceive attractive children as more intellectual, more engaged in school and more likely to succeed academically than unattractive children. This is because teachers have been shown to have more positive interactions with attractive children. In addition other studies show that customers' perceptions of quality of service is boosted by physical attractiveness. ( Taken from the overview and put in this section)

In a recent study done in 2013 by Iris Vermeir and Dieneke Van De Sompel they aimed to see if physical attractiveness stereotypes can also be seen in children. The study also wanted to know if this effected the way that the children ages 8-13 would purchase ideas based on ads. The subject or participants were separated into two different age groups: 8-9 and 12-13. This was due to the fact that these two age groups have extremely different reasoning levels due to their development. The results demonstrated that children around  8-9 years of age are affected greater when it comes to Physical attractiveness while 12-13 year old’s we less likely to make assumptions mainly when it came to an individual’s intelligent.