If we look at the high end of the beauty index, we know that the best looking stars in Hollywood or even in the local movieworld, are some of the best paid people in the world.
But does personal appearance really matter in everyday life? A Japanese TV show recently took up this interesting issue of human, nay male, behavior in regard to the physical appearance of the opposite sex with two experiments.
Experiment 1The first experiment set up 50 men who were asked to queue up in a coffee shop on the guise of making a market survey of a new brand of coffee. Inside the coffee shop, each male customer was informed by the waitress that there were only two available seats. The customer naturally checks which seat to take-- and turning back, he sees one fat, unattractive lady on the far left and a glowing, gorgeous lady on the far right. He has to make a choice between the two seats in the middle closer to the left or to the right. There were about 5 hidden cameras to monitor even the smallest eye movements so this was really funny! The results?
34 men chose the seat closer to the right (beside the beautiful lady)
16 men chose the seat closer to the left (beside the unseemly lady)
What was even more hilarious was that two or three of the 16 men who chose the left seat did so to get a better view of the beautiful lady from a distance.
Experiment 2Two female sales clerks were set up to take charge of two cash registers centrally located inside a convenience store. These were the same ladies in the coffee shop. The two ladies were positioned so that the client gets an equal view of both as he approaches the counter. Another set of 50 men were tested. The results? (Can't remember the exact numbers but this was even more surprising!)
45 men paid at the register with the beautiful sales clerk
5 men paid at the register with the unattractive sales clerk
The setup in experiment 2 is more interesting because the client has only a few seconds to consider his choice and therefore his behavior is more instinctual than deliberate.
So guys and girls, it seems that our behavior towards other people is influenced by how they look! Are you aware of this? Do you agree that physical beauty may be skin-deep but looks
do matter?
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