What is appearance? This is how a person looks: clothes, hair, facial features and facial expressions, skin tone and posture. All this affects its appearance. But can we say, looking at a person, is he sociable, shy, responsible, calm or attentive?
Opinions of experts
Recent research in the field of psychology answers this question positively. Even with a passing glance, we can make a fairly reliable judgment about a person’s personality, and the first impression is often reliable. However, one cannot deny that the appearance is sometimes deceiving, and almost everyone in their life's baggage has similar examples.
Interesting facts in confirming the connection of appearance and character
These statements are based on scientific research.
The ratio between the width and height of the faces can determine a person’s chances of success. Want to test yourself? To do this, you need to measure the distance between the ears and the distance between the upper line of your eyes and the upper lip. According to scientists, the lower the number, the higher the chances. The average ratio is usually around 2. For example, at Abraham Lincoln it was 1.93.
Men with a broad face and large cheekbones have a high level of testosterone, the level of which is directly related to aggressiveness, dominance and a rebellious spirit. This trick is regularly used in the film industry, choosing men with rude features for the role of conquerors of hearts, rebels and villains.
Wrinkles as a drawing of a person’s character. It’s hard to argue, because we use different facial muscles to smile, cry, frown or raise an eyebrow. Over time, these wrinkles perpetuate commonly used facial emotions. The crow's feet at the corners of the lips and eyes indicate optimism and emotionality, and the fold on the forehead indicates seriousness and rich life experience.
Selfies as a brief autobiography are people who are open to the world and new experiences, are not afraid to look ridiculous in their photographs and behave absolutely relaxed, while neurotic people tend to make the infamous “duck face” in their selfies.
The relationship between nose size and ambition. The larger the nose, the more ambitious its owner. According to studies, people with large noses are prone to perfectionism.
Even twins, who are difficult to distinguish between friends and relatives in childhood, gain more and more differences with age due to the fact that a person leads a dispute with genes, leading an imprint on the face of its owner. It would seem that this can help in determining what kind of life a person leads and what we can expect from him. However, unexpected surprises await us here, because even serial killers and criminals sometimes have angelic faces.
The role of stereotypes
Despite the fact that the opinions of scientists in the existence of a connection between the appearance and character of a person are based on facts confirmed by many studies, our judgments about people can be misleading. And this is partly due to the fact that we ourselves are glad to eat illusions and sometimes do not accept the prompts of our intuition and logic. This is manifested in the halo effect - a stereotype that connects behavior with appearance. We often tend to endow beautiful people with all the possible virtues, and in the end, sometimes we find that positive and pleasant people ultimately bring disappointment. And those who made a bad first impression turn out to be wonderful.
So can we unequivocally answer the question of what is appearance? And is it directly related to the character of a person? How many people, so many opinions. Probably, in answering this question, everyone will be guided by their own life experience and personal examples. But, in turn, I would like to wish everyone less disappointment in people and more interesting, positive, decent, just good representatives of humanity nearby. And what kind of appearance they will have - this is the second question. Indeed, sometimes unattractive-looking people conceal so much warmth and spiritual beauty within themselves that they can make our life bright and happy with their presence.