According to a study by Stanford University in the USA, people who feel “unattractive”, i.e. ugly, are more likely to support leftwing political movements.
Conducting the research, conducted by Professor Margaret Neale and PhD student Peter Belmi, students were asked to selfassess their physical attractiveness abilities.
Then, all the ugly and beautiful students were taken to watch a short documentary about Occupy, the movement that swept the streets of New York in 2011 and purported to protest “economic inequality” in the United States.
Results
The perception of one’s own physical beauty influences human thinking more than previously thought. When asked if they would donate a $50 lottery ticket to the movement, those who felt the least attractive were twice as likely to respond.
Neale and Belmi showed that those who feel more beautiful are more likely to believe they belong to a higher social class and believe that hierarchies are a legitimate form of civic organization.
Better explained: if you are attractive (or think you are attractive), you are more likely to identify with a higher social class and understand that hierarchy is a legitimate form of organization in society.
That is, you tend to respect family, church, business organization, teachers, in short, you work, study, raise a family and transmit these values to your children because you are a part of it. While a “small feature” is more revolutionary.
It can be empirically understood that an ugly person feels excluded from society (relationship, friends, work, etc.) and for this reason tries to question this type of interpersonal organization.
SOURCE/CREDITS: ofactual/cmais
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