Contrary to the adage "looks aren't everything," a recent study suggests that being perceived as attractive in your teenage years may have a more significant impact on climbing the social ladder than ...

We've all met someone who isn't necessarily conventionally good-looking but is somehow the most crushable person in the room, ...

How good-looking do you think you are? In two studies, optimistic, emotionally stable, and college-educated adults tended to ...

Intelligence. Kindness. Honesty. Respectfulness. A good sense of humor. These traits are consistently rated as significantly more important than physical attractiveness when considering an ideal mate ...

Humans typically perceive others and themselves as more or less physically attractive, yet the neural underpinnings of these attractiveness-related perceptions remain widely unexplored. While some ...

Attraction is a complex phenomenon that extends beyond mere physical appearance. While certain physical features consistently relate with attractiveness judgments, the psychological mechanisms behind ...

When I tell people that I study our biases against unattractive people, they oftentimes reply, “But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it?” While it is true that there is variability in whom ...

Physical attractiveness heavily shapes human culture, affecting everything from social standing, to employment prospects, to who we partner with. So it’s no wonder that social scientists are enamored ...