A small band of economists has been studying how height, weight and beauty affect the likelihood of committing — or being convicted of — a crime.
On the matter of snowdrops' appeal, which I suspect I am not alone in finding quite intense, I've long thought about this, and I don't think it is simply their pure beauty, affecting though that is.
Whitefield-Madrano interviewed men and women about how their ideas of beauty affect their relationships, and she marshals a wide array of research and statistical data to explore the ways beauty is expressed in, or determined by, conventions of language, art, media, sex, and friendship.
In this Section I examine how changes in the distribution of beauty affect the impacts of looks on the success of fund-raisers for a charity, on retention as a participant in a television game show and on electoral success in a professional organization.
In many of the examples here X is a measure of beauty that affects some outcome whose desirability increases in Y, for example, the likelihood of electoral success, Throughout I assume that X is solely ascriptive and that the response of Y to it reflects discrimination.
Matsoukas set the video for the 2013 song "Pretty Hurts" at a fictional beauty pageant, focussing on the ways that beauty standards affect women.
