Do People Take You Less Seriously With More Makeup On

A study done by researchers at Procter & Gamble, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Found found that what a woman wears on her face impacts how people perceive her. Participants in the study were asked to rate whether they felt women were competent, like-able, attractive and trustworthy. Turns out nigh people felt all these factors were true when looking at faces for a flash and felt most of them when studying the faces longer with the exception of one cistron: at a longer glance women wearing make-up were not trustworthy.

We already know we live in a culture where women are judged by what they look similar–y'all don't need a multi-establishment study to tell you lot that. Just walk downward the street or into a meeting with or without make-upwardly on, or with your hair messy, or wearing less flattering equally opposed to more than flattering wearable. Not only will it make a difference on how yous are perceived, but well-nigh likely on how y'all perceive yourself. As women, nosotros know all too well the cost of not living upwardly to what we are supposed to look similar.

There is generally an agreed understanding that this is truthful for women across the board, but where most of us differ is that feminists believe that this occurrence is socially fabricated and culturally sanctioned and some biologists and about evolutionary psychologists believe this is a natural and evolved state of beingness. They don't believe information technology is our constant consumption of photoshop perfect images of women, that don't even wait real,  that impacts what we detect bonny, like-able, trustworthy or competent.

via ABC News,

"When they got to the more than dramatic makeup looks, people saw them as equally likable and much more attractive and competent, but less trustworthy," Etcoff said. "Dramatic makeup was no longer an reward compared to when people saw the photos very chop-chop."

Etcoff said the study findings should serve as a message to women that cosmetics could have an bear on on how people perceive them in ways beyond physical attractiveness.

"In situations where a perceiver is under a high cognitive load or under time pressure, he or she is more probable to rely on such automatic judgments for decision-making," the authors wrote. "Facial images appear on ballots, job applications, web sites and dating sites."

Are they suggesting that when you expect more like what is considered a "pretty woman," y'all become treated differently, maybe even treated better? *tiresome clap*

To further scaffold this tremendous finding they also merits that even infants like pretty faces (considering infants are and then good at reporting their findings!) and that make-upwardly has e'er had an bear on on how women are perceived.

They write in the written report's introduction,

As popular agents of self-advertising, cosmetics take been subject to shifting cultural attitudes toward their use. They were manifestly considered so good at deceiving husbands In the late eighteenth century, and so feared by them, that the English regime proposed a law stating that, "All women…that shall from and after this act impose upon, seduce or betray into spousal relationship any of his Majesty's subjects past the utilise of scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, … shall incur the penalty of the constabulary now in strength against witch craft and like misdemeanors and that the marriage upon convictions shall stand null and void"

I mean, if you are looking for rational and advisable responses to women's self-expression–I can call back of no better instance than the tardily 18th century in England. And despite the draconian practices of their day–this Victorian idea that women are sultry sex activity beasts luring men into their dear den traps–merely might have something to do with the uncanny standard that no make-up makes you ugly, but too much makes you a slut and untrustworthy.

I'm not proverb there is no biological reaction to seeing paint on a face or that red lips don't make you want to kiss me more. I'm just proverb information technology is hard to determine what of that is a learned response from repeatedly seeing one type of beauty endorsed historically and culturally as opposed to what is biologically desirable. And I don't know that it necessarily matters–we have enough sense to know that information technology is generally unfair for a woman to be judged for how much make-upward she is wearing as opposed to the content of her character. Doesn't take a scientist to figure out that studies similar this take a rather unfortunate confirmation bias: that sexism is an inherent state of existence.

Source: http://feministing.com/2011/10/04/want-to-be-taken-seriously-ladies-wear-make-up/

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