tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post4101718674254357695..comments2023-09-30T08:20:57.971-04:00Comments on Bradley Wright's Blog: What is beautiful is good stereotypeBrad Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07800309833079635465noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post-34295063826292511632007-12-13T15:03:00.000-05:002007-12-13T15:03:00.000-05:00John, you read me like a brother.Sarah, I have no ...John, you read me like a brother.<BR/><BR/>Sarah, I have no idea if life is more difficult for beautiful people. I'll ask my brother John!Brad Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800309833079635465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post-21127927366262624062007-12-12T08:14:00.000-05:002007-12-12T08:14:00.000-05:00Great article!The old line, "beauty is in the eye ...Great article!<BR/>The old line, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is what I like to believe in..we all see things differently ( thank God for that)..just as in art/photography, what some see as beautiful, others detest.<BR/>It's also my thought that when one is considered beautiful, life could be more difficult....perhaps they feel as though they have to prove their intelligence by working harder at it so as not to be thought of as "just another pretty face"...so it could be somewhat of a movtivator to succeed.SARAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16709202258084578997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post-25174025504454820782007-12-11T23:10:00.000-05:002007-12-11T23:10:00.000-05:00Very interesting, bro.By the way, I'm pretty sure ...Very interesting, bro.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I'm pretty sure you wrote it just to put the pic of Melissa Thereau in there. Not because you've got the hots for her, but as a cheap ploy to spike your hitmeter when all her groupies show up.<BR/><BR/>I keeed, I keeed.Knumbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11125270543075582125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post-46246629061509764212007-12-11T12:22:00.000-05:002007-12-11T12:22:00.000-05:00Glad you liked it, Kent.Ruud, as I understand the ...Glad you liked it, Kent.<BR/><BR/>Ruud, as I understand the literature (and it's been awhile since I read it), beauty has some effect on perceptions of intelligence, but less than on other factors, such as social competence.<BR/><BR/>Sapience, that's a good question. What do we do with people who break stereotype... do we go much further in the other direction? Hadn't thought about it.Brad Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800309833079635465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post-40609940539512316492007-12-11T10:09:00.000-05:002007-12-11T10:09:00.000-05:00This is interesting. The men have higher expectat...This is interesting. The men have higher expectations of the woman because they are told she is beautiful (or they have lower expectations if they are not told she is). <BR/><BR/>However, if you had a nasty, mean woman, would being beautiful make others perceive her as worse than she is, the same as she is, or better than she is? If we expect certain things from beautiful women and then they don't live up to them, do we ignore it (what is beautiful must be good, despite other evidence), is it mitigated but not erased by the beauty, or do we penalize more for it than we would if the person were average looking?Sapiencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09259871146375570988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post-39246171963378479702007-12-11T09:54:00.000-05:002007-12-11T09:54:00.000-05:00It depends.I think intelligence/education are capa...It depends.<BR/>I think intelligence/education are capacities needed for the task of (say) engineer. The way you look is a capacity for other jobs (like movie star).<BR/>However when beauty is taken in consideration to hire an engineer, there might be something wrong. So the question is, are only required capacities taken into consideration or is there some prejudice that makes us feel that beatiful people are more intelligent?Ruud Vermeijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06947453585488967314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37421406.post-72285223139624376952007-12-11T08:51:00.000-05:002007-12-11T08:51:00.000-05:00Wow, that is a great article.Wow, that is a great article.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04592719875316621429noreply@blogger.com