Pretty People Really Do Have It Better

Fourth: what matters is whether people like how you look on the outside.

We were lucky, I thought, dissociating, to even be able to indulge these awful priorities, to have the economic capital to be able to accrue more social capital via our looks. And then our looks, in some way, would help us guard and acquire economic capital—this was the

Another factor influencing whether we like someone or not is whether we find them physically attractive. Attractiveness produces a so-called halo effect , meaning that we tend to see attractive people as smart, kind and honest. Worryingly, we even tend to vote for more attractive candidates in elections!