The next time you find yourself getting ready for an interview or preparing for that six-month review with your manager, it's probably best to make sure your hair is exactly how you want it to be. According to a study by Professor Margaret Neale and doctoral student Peter Belmi of Stanford Graduate School of Business, when you view yourself as physically attractive (whether it be because of a good hair day, clearer skin, or perhaps the satisfying results of a brand new work-out routine), you also feel like you're in a higher social class.
What sparked the study, aptly titled 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Fairest of Them All,' was when Belmi noticed that in the thick of a recession, the beauty industry was still booming. Americans are still spending the same money on personal grooming, and according the US Census Bureau, the expenses ($200 billion in 2008, to be exact) are way more than what's usually spent on things like reading material. But perhaps that's because most of our reading has gone digital and there isn't exactly an app for the perfect blow-out.
Neale and Belmi conducted up to five studies on both men and women. The participants brought the two researchers to the written conclusion that we 'see the social world as fundamentally stratified not only on the basis of who has wealth, education, and occupational prestige, but also on the basis of who is beautiful and attractive.'
Sure, it's a twisted way of thinking about hierarchy in general, but Neale and Belmi's study, which will be published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, can also suggest a positive internal exercise to help the way you present yourself. Especially if you happen to 'remember a time when you felt attractive, and then let that memory change how you interact with others.' Much like male model Shaun Ross and his In My Skin I Win campaign, it's up to you to build a beneficial perception of yourself from within - and with a killer updo.
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