When we meet someone we don’t know, we naturally try to form an opinion about the other person by looking at his appearance. Most of us want to make a good impression. clean and stylish clothesWhile we might think it’s all about a good haircut or a nice smell, new research from the University of Glasgow shows that our face shape can also influence people’s opinions of us.

First, let’s note that the study was conducted in Western Europe and only among white people. Hence all the results across races and cultures It is not possible to say that it is valid. Yet it is remarkable that the research shows that even our passport photos, in which we all look relatively equally ‘ordinary’, can reflect our social status.

Even the shape of our mouth can indicate whether we are rich or poor.

The research focuses on the question of what indicates someone’s social class. In its crudest form, it tries to explain why you look poor or rich. According to the participants a wide and short, flat face, a downturned mouth and a dark, cool skin color are associated with a lower social class. Worst of all, these qualities also come with a more incompetent, colder, and unreliable personality.

On the contrary, narrower and longer faces, a mouth up, lighter and warmer skin color It is also associated with high social status. It is also thought that people with these facial features are more talented, warm and trustworthy. In other words, even just a few hundred characteristics of people cause us to have highly critical biases about them.

Whether you have warm or cold skin can even affect whether you get hired or not.

So why is this research important? The author of the study is Dr. R. Thora Bjornsdottir explains this issue as follows:

In a job interview, a job interview, etc. In places where people are thought to belong to a low or high social class just based on their appearance, this causes people to have major problems in their lives. advantages and disadvantages can offer.

As we mentioned at the beginning of our news, we should point out that since the research does not examine all cultures in the world, we may encounter different results in different cultures. Still, people look into our eyes The fact that we can be prejudiced about whether we are talented or not suggests that racism may be more than skin color or nationality.