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How society and our mind impact PAP? |
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Starts early
Parents promulgate Physical Attractiveness phenomenon (PAP) to their children in ways intended and not intended. In turn, these children further promulgate the phenomenon to their peers and, eventually, as they age and become parents themselves, to their children. Socialization or indoctrination of children with Physical Attractiveness phenomenon begins innocently with good, honorable intentions. However, lessons learned or otherwise embraced early about Physical Attractiveness extend far beyond childhood, as demonstrated lifelong in variant forms. As a result, people of all ages consciously and subconsciously demonstrate their beliefs: positive, favorable, and complimentary to individuals of higher Physical Attractiveness and quite the opposite toward individuals of lower Physical Attractiveness.
Cross culture. It's universal
Physical Attractiveness Phenomenon is universal. Therefore, reasons interpreted or offered to explain occurrences manifested in everyday life or identified in scientific research often go to the core of human existence. Among the different cultures between and within countries that translate Physical Attractiveness Phenomenon somewhat distinctively, the similarities are overwhelming. The findings document that people worldwide favor, and treat accordingly, higher Physical Attractiveness over lower, and the accompanying phenomenon transcends time, geography, and culture. Findings reported by research around the world consistently suggests extrapolation and generalizations that attest to the robustness of Physical Attractiveness Phenomenon. One such research, see the table below, shows universal preference of 'supermodels' over other individuals.
Table Showing Percentage of Men in the United States and Fourteen Other
Countries Stating Whom They Would Like Most to Sit Beside on a Long Flight
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United States
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Men in All 15 Surveyed Countries
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Supermodel
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29
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32
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Country’s Leader
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23
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16
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Comedian
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19
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20
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Stockbroker
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10
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9
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Sports Star
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7
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12
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Pastor/Priest
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6
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5
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Cartoon Character
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4
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4
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Your Boss
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2
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2
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The Reasons- psychological and social benefits
Why is it that when you change the way you look at things, the things change? Research findings reveal that Physical Attractiveness plays a dramatic, but largely unexamined and involuntary, role in an individual's interpersonal interactions. How others perceive and respond to the individual, and even in the individual's personality development is strongly influenced by the attractiveness quotient of the person. Generally, the more physically attractive an individual is, the more positively people perceive the person, the more favorably people respond to the person, and the more successful the person's personal and professional lives are presumed to be. Through self-fulfilling prophecy, also known as the Pygmalion Effect, some attributions convert into reality in the lives of people depending on their higher or lower Physical Attractiveness.
How attractive an indvidual perceives himself or herself may or may not match the view from the outside i.e. match others' assesment. Even with perceptions, attributions, and realities in their favor due to their Physical Attractiveness, some continue to endure privately a sense of doubt, inadequacy, or even revulsion over their appearance to extents that affect everyday living and even life itself. |
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PA - Its importance and benefits. |
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Why does it become important or has so much currency?
Because physical appearance is conspicuous, tangibile, providing unparalleled visibility and accessibility when compared with other less accessible attributes, such as, good thinking, skills, character etc. |
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“Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princess of those who have it”.
Sloan Wilson |
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