Good-looking people are more likely to believe that life is fair

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From http://www.psypost.org/2018/03/good-looking-people-likely-believe-life-fair-50979

Good-looking people are more likely to believe that life is fair

By ERIC W. DOLAN March 31, 2018

Beautiful people tend to believe that life is fundamentally fair and just, according to new research conducted with college students.

The study, published in the journal Psychological Reports, examined the relationship between physical attractiveness and belief in a just world, meaning the belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

“My primary area of research is the attractiveness stereotype, which refers to the human tendency to attribute positive traits to attractive people and negative traits to those deemed unattractive,” said R. Shane Westfall, a PhD student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and corresponding author of the study.

“As I was reading more about the Just World Hypothesis for an unrelated topic, I noticed that the strongest endorsers of the hypothesis tend to be those favored by society. This led me to make a connection with my research, as more attractive individuals receive favorable treatment throughout their lives.”

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From http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0033294118763172

The Influence of Physical Attractiveness on Belief in a Just World

R. Shane Westfall, Murray G. Millar, Aileen Lovitt
First Published March 8, 2018 Research Article

Abstract
Previous work has consistently found that belief in a just world is strongly correlated with societal privilege. In the present study, we examined the influence of physical attractiveness on belief in a just world. We hypothesized that physically attractive individuals would be stronger endorsers of belief in a just world, whereas less attractive individuals would be less likely to endorse belief in a just world. Both self-rated attractiveness (experiment one) and attractiveness rated by other persons (experiment two) were found to predict endorsement of belief in a just world. Additionally, both attractiveness measures were found to have a relationship with participant’s level of life satisfaction. These findings suggest that physical attractiveness powerfully affects our subjective experience as a human and that just-world beliefs are driven, at least in part, by personal experience with inequality.

[dchill]

1. Yes, I'll testify to that! Life is very fair!

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Life is usually easier for attractive people.

Have you stayed at a nice hotel lately? It’s basically a hierarchy of attractiveness. The more attractive, the higher the position in the hotel. You’re telling me there are no hospitality majors no happen to be homely?

[applegrove]

3. I looked up how jewish victims of the holocaust viewed what

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happened to them years later as they healed. But i guess the old adage that if you see the man made horrors as not man made then it hurts less.Often, it said, they just saw themselves as unlucky. That is quite a feat. Add that to the GOP big wigs thinking they are totally responsible for their success, and they are warped, and it gives me this adage: "if you believe that when very bad things happen you are unlucky and when great things happen you are just very lucky, you are always attached to a group greater than yourself and can truly belong to the human race."

[Loki Liesmith]

4. Good luck fixing this

[dweller]

5. attractiveness has nothing to do with

"meaning the belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get"

flawed premise
✌🏼️

[spooky3]

6. It would be interesting to see how this changes over

time, as people experience more negative and positive events that may not be connected to what they do, then as they begin to lose their looks.

[murielm99]

8. I've thought of that, as far as aging goes.

Does life seem unfair to attractive men and women equally, as they age and lose their looks? It would be interesting to see a study on that.

Postmenopausal women seem to become invisible. How do the most attractive of those women view life's fairness then?

I am serious. I am not talking about people who have every cosmetic surgery available. I mean ordinary people.

[Binkie The Clown]

7. Make that good-looking people and Buddhist monks. nt

[grantcart]

9. Life is extremely fair 🤣

[SCantiGOP]

14. I asked the mirror on the wall

and it said that I believed life was fairer than you do.
So there.

[The River]

10. Life is Neither Fair or Unfail

it simply is.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. LOL, I must be one ugly mofo! nt

[YOHABLO]

12. I have noticed through my work history that taller men seem to have more advantages.

[Javaman]

13. the real tuesday weld - the ugly and the beautiful

listen to the lyrics.