Are people with high values more comfortable in the workplace?

People who are beautiful will have a smoother career path. Although this is a kind of employment discrimination, we have to admit that it is a fact. As we all know, lovely babies are more favored by their mothers; Students with sunny appearance are more liked by teachers and considered smarter; Attractive adults earn higher wages and are more successful in love and marriage; Likable criminal suspects are more likely to be found innocent by the jury, and even if they are really guilty, they will be given a lighter punishment.

The workplace is largely a place to judge people by their appearances. Please consider the following points:

Xu Hongjia and Joseph of the University of Wisconsin. Halford's work report shows that an attractive CEO can help the company raise its share price when it makes its debut on TV.

"Tall" people have their own generous salaries. In fact, people with a height of 1.83cm earn 10% more annual income than those with a height of 1.70cm.

As long as you look better than 67% of your peers, you can earn an extra $230,000 in your life.

A blonde is equivalent to a year's study at school.

For white women, obesity especially reduces the money they can earn in their lifetime.

Some of these findings are expected, while others are surprising. But there was a particularly interesting study this week, which said that people with big faces-well, "rich and plump"-had an advantage in negotiation.

The University of California, Riverside, London Business School and Columbia University formed a research team with dispatch commissioners. They found that people with fat faces are "more tenacious than people with thin faces and refuse to compromise", and this "uncompromising momentum makes them strive for more benefits in negotiations". Interestingly, if the negotiating partner is a woman, this effect will become invisible, and those fat people will be considered as "people who are not easy to reach unity at the negotiating table." They are too lacking in cooperation spirit to find innovative comprehensive solutions with them. "

As a short man with immature appearance and thin skin, I especially hope that these external prejudices that obliterate normal logic can be reasonably explained. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. In the following research on the relationship between height and income, we found that another variable is also at work, that is, IQ: 16 years old, people who are significantly higher than their peers will have higher IQ. Similarly, there is evidence that people with big heads are physically more fearless and confident. When they are surrounded by people with thin necks and small faces, they can become negotiators.

But in many workplaces, appearance prejudice is just a shortcut for the brain to make it easy. It's like going shopping. When you don't know the actual value of a thing, the buyer will keep looking for evidence that it is worth buying (look at this discount! Much cheaper than other similar ones! )。 Company managers and employees can't fully understand the real potential of their partners around them, so they will use simple and direct methods to judge who is more capable. Although beautiful women with thin waist and rich buttocks and confident men with plump faces can't explain their PPT skills, beauty and self-confidence are extremely easy to obtain information, that is to say, before we realize that we have formed an opinion, this information has directly participated in the formation of an opinion. After all, our first impression of things only takes 13 milliseconds. Once you realize this, you will be surprised at your prejudice, but that's all.