Why Do Beautiful People Deserve To Be More Successful

The oxford dictionary defines beauty as; combinations of aesthetically pleasing qualities such as shape form our colour (Deserve, 2015). Deserve can be defined as; to be given or have earned something due to the qualities one may have or the way in which they have behaved (Beauty, 2015). Beautiful people do not deserve to be more successful than ugly people because whatever their occupation only individuals who work hard and are successful at what they do will succeed. The way an individual looks should not dictate their level of success. Success comes from aspiration, motivation and effort. In this essay the writer will discuss whether beautiful people deserve to be more successful than ugly people and provide evidence to support the argument

Most African countries are still of the opinion that thin women are unattractive and curved bodies represent good health, fertility and wealth while full figured women are considered attractive (Mastamet-Mason, 2014). On the other hand, wide hips in other cultures are seen as an early sign of obesity.

Beauty preference is already present in early infancy. Babies as young as Six months old demonstrate a preference towards the same attractive faces that adults do. This evidence strongly conflicts the belief that preferences of attractiveness are mainly assimilated through life experience. (Rubenstein, Kalakanis, & Langlois,

This can transpire whenever there are possible multiple reasons to suggest why an individual was treated in a certain way or why certain outcomes occurred. There are many reasons that may be a contributing factor for attribution ambiguity. Some of which include doubt about whether the treatment of an individual is founded on personal deservingness, for example colleagues of an individual who is successful within a company purely based on the way the look when no other skills can be identified when the employer believes that this alone will benefit the company. As a result the individual may be left with doubt as to why the may have achieved their success for example was it down to their knowledge and skills or simply down to their physical attractiveness (Baumeister &Vohs,