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Media and businesses take advantage of this psychological nature in people and drive them into buying their products. Often millennial's and Gen-Z are the generations who are affected by this trend. Often people who look good dressed and in good shape take major part of the media and business. This is something that has to change.

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In this hilarious video Steve Harvey explains how life is difficult and unfair to people who are unattractive. He also makes few statements thats makes us think there is no such thing called as "Ugly"

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When it comes to confidence being felt attractive plays a major role for both men and women. Everyone feel confident if they feel they are attractive. This often leads to depression because they don't focus on their strength. So people tend to be more confident when they are less rejected or feel wanted.

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The pros and cons of being attractive : Life of a good looking person

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The pros and cons of being attractive : Life of a good looking person

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Attractive people are often perceived to be intelligent, kind and more outgoing when compared to other people. But this puts a pressure on attractive people too. For example, women who are attractive often face lot of problems in day to day life like male gaze to losing good friendships because of insecurity. This article here explains about the pros and cons of being an attractive personality.

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Beyond being knockout gorgeous, the model Emily Ratajkowski - you might recognize her from Robin Thicke and Pharrell's video "Blurred Lines" - has a gift for the incisive. After Piers Morgan shamed Kim Kardashian for her internet-breaking nude selfie, Ratajkowski joined Kim for a double-middle-finger topless selfie comeback heard around the world. She wrote about the trials of early adolescence for Lena Dunham; and in an interview that's now buzzing about the internet, she dishes on how her looks have shaped her life in "an interestingparadox."

"I started to realise that I was being perceived differently" in puberty, she tells the Evening Standard. "It was confusing. Basically it was more about the way that people had a problem with a girl looking like a woman because it confused them, it made them feel uncomfortable and I think there was a lot of guilt that they wanted toinduce."

Being perceived differently - is there a more apt way to describe the experience of being beautiful? Some of us stop traffic, some cabs would happily run over. Digging into the psychology literature, there's ample evidence that super-hot people are indeed perceived differently. They get ahead in life in many ways (spoiler alert: teachers call on cute kids), but they run into problems all theirown.

The most deflating example is a finding called the "beauty premium," which states that the wealth gap between the hot and the not is like those between sexes and ethnicities. That's a long-term result of the halo effect: If someone is "easy on the eyes," the enjoyment we derive from looking at them colors our perceptions of other attributes. The research says we're more likely to view them as intelligent, healthy, and socially capable simply because they look good - consider the "handsome bubble" that Jon Hamm's hapless doctor played on 30 Rock.

Harvard economist Markus Mobius and Wesleyan University economist Tanya Rosenblat published the seminal paper "Why Beauty Matters" in 1994. They found that in three different samples of workers, more attractive people consistently earned 12 to 14 percent more than unattractive people - regardless of gender - with evidence that the "labor market sorts the best-looking people into occupations where their looks are productive." To that end, a 2012 paper found that comely real estate brokers outperformed homely colleagues. More uncomfortably, first- and sixth-graders think attractive teachers are kinder and happier, and college students thought that attractive professors were clearer, more helpful, and of higher overallquality.

In news to no one who was awkward in high school (or beyond), hot people tend to be super confident. Mobius and Rosenblat chalk this up to a self-fulfilling prophecy that will have been at work since kindergarten - teachers expect cute kids to do well (thanks to above-mentioned halo effect), so they give them more attention than ugly kids. With that attention comes better grades, more confidence, and greater comfort with publicdisplay.

But not everything is in the hots' favor. Other research has shown that people placed in the role of hiring managers or admissions officers give lower marks to people of the same sex that they feel are more attractive than they are. As Columbia psychologist Heidi Grant Halverson quips in her book No One Understands You and What to Do About It, nobody says to themselves, "I'm threatened by this person, so there is no way I'm hiring this applicant," but that's exactly whathappens.

Ratajkowski is apparently a case study in this: She's instafamous, but she still has to deal with lots of other people's insecurities. Like, say, PiersMorgan's.

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Yes, Beautiful People Have a Totally Different Experience of Life

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Beyond being knockout gorgeous, the model Emily Ratajkowski - you might recognize her from Robin Thicke and Pharrell's video "Blurred Lines" - has a gift for the incisive. After Piers Morgan shamed Kim Kardashian for her internet-breaking nude selfie, Ratajkowski joined Kim for a double-middle-finger topless selfie comeback heard around the world.

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Actually it's the opposite, successful people look more beautiful because they have the money and time for it. Also they earned it so basically I think everyone can be beautiful the way we want, it's just about perceptions and effort. I have attached a picture of Elon Musk, who is my all time favorite celebrity over the ages. So I conclude beauty comes with success not the other way around.

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Attractive people can achieve anything they want easily because they have a good chance of people listening to them. In this article. Casey Neistat, America's one of the famous YouTube celebrities explains how people who are attractive have a easy life but he also discusses about what makes the unsuccessful to push hard. I found this article motivating and I love Casey Neistat.

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Harassment, attractiveness, & the prison that we call our looks.

How Does This Picture Make You Feel?

Are you jealous?

Are you intrigued?

Does it make you sad?

Would you be more likely to hire this person?

Would you take the time to get to know her?

If you met her in person would you glance twice at her?

I have wrote about this before, if you're interested in this topic I recommend reading that article as well: "Attractive People Are More Likely to be Trusted, Elected, and Listened To. "

In that blog post, I encountered some hostility by saying that attractive people have it easier in this life than unattractive people.

On average it seems obvious that this statement is true.

Every single one of us will agree that it would be better if we valued people based on their qualities, & his/her perspective on the world rather than first impressions & intuition. But we can all say without a doubt say that that does not happen often.

What Attractiveness Makes You Go Through

I was told, however, that attractive people also have to deal with difficulty. Here's a list (provided by a reader of my blog):

To be approached in a restaurant while eating alone by two dudes with teardrop facial tattoos telling you "you're hella pretty" and ask you repeatedly where your boyfriend is at?

Have a much harder time getting to know your significant other / roommate's / male friend's friends, because they see you and their first impression is to think of you as a threat to their relationship with their man? (note: this refers to women who feel insecure in their relationship, but this is more common than we'd like to admit).

Going to the gym and not being able to go unnoticed by the older men, even with no makeup/sweatpants, etc? If you're an attractive woman, there is no escaping the male gaze.

Feeling pressured by society to date someone who is as attractive as you are? (This one is a bitch, and it took me a long time to think I had more to offer potential partners than my looks.)

Harassment is Terrible - My Experience

Harassment is not a joke. I know this to be true of myself as well. I have had friends in the past that I did not want to cut ties with.

I have had experiences where gay men have talked about me sexually in front of them and suggested (on numerous occasions) that I be topless, stay the night, and that I have a "big cock".

I do understand where the frustration comes from.

Have I ever felt threatened when such remarks come my way?

On many occasions - yes - I did. If anyone wishes to hear about these cases I would love to talk over email, in private. I have never spoken about this with the parties involved.

The harassment is one part of the problem. My blog post was more about listening to people. Imagine, even in your own circles (I assume you're heterosexual in this?), who are you more likely to listen to: your super duper attractive buddy male friend, or your not so attractive male friend?

You will probably choose your answer based off of biological reasons that you cannot affect. I'm not saying that this is your fault or my fault.

I see it often in my classes. The attractive people seem much more confident and cocky in their speech, because they are not rejected often. Meanwhile, the less attractive people are more likely to be shy.

Social Media

The less attractive people see the standard of beauty everywhere: Instagram, Movies, Shows, the News. Then they look in the mirror and cry because the "standard" - they know - will never be met.

Many of my very attractive friends are beautiful and lovely people. They really do care about people.

I do not want to oversimplify this. I want to start a conversation. Research has been offered to suggest that attractive people have it much more easier in life. I wouldn't necessarily say that I am unattractive.

Beauty vs. Hotness

That leads to my last point, there is a difference between "beauty" and "hotness." I think most people desire a "beautiful" partner.

Not many people desire a "hot" partner. Actually - few do - from the conversations that I have had with friends over the years.

Encouraging Words

I have said this in the past.

What I am saying is that we are celebrating them over less attractive people simply because they are more attractive. And that seems to be ludicrous. Someone who is unattractive does not deserve to be mistreated just because he is overweight, or is asymmetrical.

Casey Neistat did a fantastic video about this.

This phenomenal man is not stereotypically attractive. Despite that he is achieved enormous success. Link here.

Here's a summary:

[speaking about appearances and haters] Look human beings come in all different sizes, we're all beautiful in our own way.

Never pick on someone because of the way they look.

You have to judge people because of their substance not because of their superficiality.

It is truth that better looking people have it easier in this world, so if you want to pick on someone, pick on really attractive people, because they don't have to work as hard as you or me - they just show up and smile.

I'm sorry if you're really beautiful and watching this, I don't mean to pick on you.

Let me know what you have experienced in your life and whether you agree.

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Who Has It Easier? Attractive People or Unattractive People?

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Harassment, attractiveness, & the prison that we call our looks. How Does This Picture Make You Feel? Are you jealous? Are you intrigued? Does it make you sad? Would you be more likely to hire this person? Would you take the time to get to know her?

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This video explains how we judge a person based on their looks(Obviously first impression is the best impression).I started my research understanding whats attractiveness and does it really make an impact on mental strength?

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The Halo Effect - How Attractiveness Flows using the Psychology of Attraction