Beauty and Brains Guarantee Good Job With Fat Salary

by Sreeraman on  May 18, 2009 at 3:51 PM Lifestyle News
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If you think intelligence is the key to career progression, then here's a new flash: good looks with dash of smartness can help people score the job and earn the money they have always dreamed of.

That's the conclusion of a new research which claims that attractiveness, along with confidence, may help job seekers stand out to employers.

"Little is known about why there are income disparities between the good-looking and the not-so-good-looking," said the study's lead author, Timothy Judge, PhD, of the University of Florida.

"We've found that, even accounting for intelligence, a person's feeling of self-worth is enhanced by how attractive they are and this, in turn, results in higher pay," she added.

To reach the conclusion, research team analyzed data from the Harvard Study of Health and Life Quality, a national, longitudinal study. The findings appear in the May issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association.

The study looked at 191 men and women between the ages of 25 and 75 who were interviewed three times six months apart starting in 1995. They answered questions about their household income, education and financial stresses and evaluated how happy or disappointed they were with their achievements up to that point.

They completed several intelligence and cognitive tests and had their pictures taken. Several different people on the research team rated each person's attractiveness relative to their age and gender. The raters were men and women of varying ages. The authors then calculated an average attractiveness score for each participant based on those ratings.

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