Personal Appearance : Physical vs Personality.

"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).

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.