"A Beautiful Appearance Will Last A Decades, But A Beautiful Personality
Will Last A Lifetime".
Case Study
Physical and
Personality
We usually think
that our physical appearance reflects our personality. If you have heavy
eyelids you keep your feelings to yourself, if you have a long thin nose you
are probably a workaholic, etc. Despite these common beliefs of how some facial
features represent personality, it is hard to think that humans are so predictable
and easy to analyses.
Judging
personality is definitely not an easy job but not in the eyes of an experience person.
Throughout the time we have heard many people saying that when getting to know someone,
what matters is personality instead of physical appearance. Nevertheless, it is
the appearance what first catches people attention. But, what happens when one
depends on the other one?
“Isn´t Physical
Appearance really important”, or “Isn’t the
Personality
matter the most”.
Does personality
depends on physical appearance? What do people usually believe? Have you ever
met someone who reflects his/her personality through their facial features? Do you
believe in this theory?
Situation 1 :
The important to describe
the interest of this two factor (physical and personality) is gender
differences are generally apparent at all ages. The importance of gender
differences across the life span in once appearance concern and once self-esteem
is discussed.
Age, gender, and gender role differences on a set of variables including concern about eating, body weight, and physical appearance, global self-esteem, and self-esteem were examined in a sample of subjects consisting of 639 visitors to a participatory science museum. Their ages ranged from 10 to 79 years. Results showed that females are more concerned than males about eating, body weight, and physical appearance and have lower self-esteem (personality).
Age, gender, and gender role differences on a set of variables including concern about eating, body weight, and physical appearance, global self-esteem, and self-esteem were examined in a sample of subjects consisting of 639 visitors to a participatory science museum. Their ages ranged from 10 to 79 years. Results showed that females are more concerned than males about eating, body weight, and physical appearance and have lower self-esteem (personality).
Situation 2 :
The research about
faces affect hiring decisions and could influence voting behavior. Here, we
show that facial appearance has important effects on choice of leader. We also
show that there may be no general characteristics of faces that can win votes,
demonstrating that face traits and information about the environment interact
in choice of leader. Human groups are unusual among primates in that our
leaders are often democratically selected.
We show that changing
context from war time to peace time during the election can affect which face
receives the most votes (Situation 1) and differences in facial shape alone
between candidates can predict who wins or loses in an election (Situation 2).
Our studies highlight the role of personal attributions in face perception and
the role of face shape in voting behavior.
Situation 3 :
In one more analysis found that a teacher's expectations about a child's behavior strongly
influence child’s actual behavior. Generally, teachers will become the first
impressions of children and thus develop their expectations for them from two
sources of information (the children's school record and their physical
appearance).
In this
experiment, teachers were given objective information, presumably about a
child's scholastic and social potential, accompanied by a photograph of an
attractive or an unattractive boy or girl. It was found that the child's
attractiveness was significantly associated with the teacher's expectations
about how intelligent the child was, how interested in education his parents were,
how far he was likely to progress in school, and how popular he would be with
his peers.