Are good-looking people really more successful?


Women need to support one another in breaking beauty biases. Photo: Freepik

People who are “good-looking” make about 12-14% more money than those who are unattractive, says South China Morning Post’s production executive (digital) Salome Grouard, quoting from a North American study (Hamermesh and Biddle 1994).

This is due to the “halo effect” where one aspect of a person such as their beauty or good looks are taken as representative for their whole character.

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