<p>"In society, attractive people tend to be more intelligent, better adjusted, and more popular. This is described as the halo effect - due to the perfection associated with angels. Research shows attractive people also have more occupational success and more dating experience than their unattractive counterparts. One theory behind this halo effect is that it is accurate – attractive people are indeed more successful.</p>
<p>Research shows attractive people also have more occupational success and more dating experience than their unattractive counterparts.
An alternative explanation for attractive people achieving more in life is that we automatically categorize others before having an opportunity to evaluate their personalities, based on cultural stereotypes which say attractive people must be intrinsically good, and ugly people must be inherently bad. But Elliot Aronson, a social psychologist at Stanford University, believes self-fulfilling prophecies - in which a person’t confident self-perception, further perpetuated by healthy feedback from others - may play a role in success as well. "
[Looking</a> Good: The Psychology and Biology of Beauty](<a href=“http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue6/features/feng.html]Looking”>http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume6/issue6/features/feng.html)</p>