<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to researchers at the Royal Holloway, University of London, standing next to an ugly friend will make you appear more attractive.<\/p>\n
People’s judgement of how attractive you look vary according to the company you keep according to the researchers.<\/p>\n
The researchers asked volunteers to rate pictures of different faces for attractiveness.<\/p>\n
The volunteers were then asked to rate the same faces placed next to\u00a0pictures with faces perceived to be on the ugly side.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that adding the pictures with faces perceived to be on the ugly side led to the original faces seeming more fancied.<\/p>\n
“We live in a society obsessed with beauty and attractiveness, but how we measure and understand these concepts is still a grey area,” study author Nicholas Furl said.<\/p>\n
“Until now, it’s been understood that a person’s level of attractiveness is generally steady.<\/p>\n
“However, this work demonstrates that the company we keep has an effect on how attractive we appear to others.<\/p>\n
“Rightly or wrongly, the way people look has a profound impact on the way others perceive them.”<\/p>\n
The study was published in the journal Psychological Science<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\nPhil<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to researchers at the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6836,"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\/30212"}],"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=30212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30213,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30212\/revisions\/30213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}