{"id":21459,"date":"2015-12-09T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=21459"},"modified":"2016-06-04T18:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:13:14","slug":"being-handsome-is-bad-for-a-mans-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/being-handsome-is-bad-for-a-mans-career\/","title":{"rendered":"BEING HANDSOME IS BAD FOR A MAN&#8217;S CAREER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Handsome-man.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21460 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Handsome-man.jpg\" alt=\"Handsome-man\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Handsome-man.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Handsome-man-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers at University College London&#8217;s School of Management and the University of Maryland in the US have found being good-looking is bad for a man&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers found that handsome men are less likely to get their dream jobs and are seen as a threat by their male bosses and are also less likely to be given roles that showcase their individual talents as a result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The researchers also found that when men were hiring other men to work with, their decision was affected by the attractiveness of the candidate and the type of job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being attractive wasn&#8217;t an issue for women because being a pretty woman isn&#8217;t associated with competence among female stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Managers are affected by stereotypes and make hiring decisions to serve their own self-interests so organisations may not get the most competent candidates,&#8221; said Sun Young Lee, the lead researcher of the study and assistant professor of Maryland University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To get the best workers, the researchers suggest bigger companies may find it more beneficial to have a neutral, outside recruitment company doing the hiring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study is published in the journal <i>Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Phil<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at University College London&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[2794],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27032,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions\/27032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}