Attractive women inspire men to tell the truth and women to lie, study finds

Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, the research aimed to reveal how a woman’s appearance impacts the moral behavior of others.

Researchers in Tel Aviv gave 110 men and women, 110 subjects each, a questionnaire with an image of a woman attached, and falsely told participants that it was the face of the scientist leading the study.

Half of the questionnaires presented an image of a typically attractive woman and the other half a less attractive woman.

The results showed that men were more likely to behave more honestly when they believed they were interacting with a beautiful woman, while the opposite pattern was observed in female participants, who exhibited “a beauty penalty toward women.” attractive,” the study authors wrote.

The researchers attributed women’s reactions to an attractive woman to the “negative emotional priming of female jealousy and envy, which is related to social comparison theory.”

Men’s behavior, on the other hand, was linked to the “beauty premium” – a previously proven phenomenon that found that beautiful people are often assumed to have good character traits and a good life.

The reality of “beautiful privilege” has long been debated, as people discuss how their appearance has helped or hindered them in different aspects of their lives.

Last summer, the issue went viral as some women bragged about the lavish gifts and expensive trips they received because of their good looks and others complained that being hot was a “curse.”

“People in general treat you very differently and don’t judge you by your actions, they just judge you by your appearance,” Shye Lee told The Post — a sentiment that appears to be supported by research.

“Pretty girl privilege only works in certain aspects of life,” Lee said. Sure, being really pretty is helpful when it comes to free drinks, VIP tables and rich guys, but the benefits, she noted, are limited.

“Pretty girls are never taken seriously,” Lee said.

Others insisted that the downsides of “pretty privilege” had more to do with the behavior of beautiful women.

“There are very few people who are so beautiful that they just alienate them for no reason,” TikToker Amber Khan, 45, of the Upper West Side, insisted to The Post.

However, research has shown that the superficial reality is that although beauty may only be skin deep, its impact goes deeper.