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Appearance: why baldness matters.
Don't ask me how I got to this site lol, I was searching for a study of Cash. Anyway I enjoyed the piece of writing;
Don't ask me how I got to this site lol, I was searching for a study of Cash. Anyway I enjoyed the piece of writing;
taken from; http://www.electricphysique.com/regain-hair-loss.htmlWhy should baldness be such a big deal in the first place? After all hair is just dead cells called keratin!! And baldness is not only a human trait. Some other primates such as Chimpanzees, stump-tailed macaques and South American Nakari show progressive thinning of the hair as they age. Do you ever hear them complaining about having to regain hair loss? Fortunately for them they don’t have to deal with other humans.
Appearance
We live in an age where appearance is king, so how do other people view bald or balding men generally? Cash's 1988 study gives us a good idea. He asked three groups of people - young, middle-aged and elderly - to look at slides of bald and haired men. No one in the study was told why he or she was looking at these particular pictures, but was asked to rate the person in each slide for qualities such as intelligence, life success, personal likeability, self-assertiveness, social attractiveness, physical attractiveness and their perceived age.
The study confirmed a generally negative social stereotype of balding people as being less attractive, less happy and less successful. Both men and women expected the balding men to be less personally like-able than the non-balding. No wonder people are looking to regain hair loss.
Personal attractiveness impinges on all aspects of life. From pre-school to work and from courtroom to relationships, beauty is a commodity that influences the quality of your life. Anything that lessens attractiveness must surely work to your detriment to some degree. From the available research, going bald is certainly one of those things that does diminish attractiveness.
Sure, you can point to Yul Brynner and Sean Connery but they are loved because they made movies. Would they be held in such high esteem if one ran Yul’s butchery and the other ran Connery’s Key Cutting and Shoe Repair? I doubt it.
Sean and Yul aside, in a Zoomerang survey of 2006, 78 percent of those surveyed thought that men with a full head of hair were sexier than those who are losing their hair and those who are bald. No wonder men everywhere are searching regain hair loss.
In another study a perception of bald men looking less attractive (and less attractive sexually) was found in more than 90% of subjects surveyed. Importantly, this view was more common in women than non-balding men but still prevalent.
One study showed that a man with a full head of hair was more likely to be invited to a job interview by a personnel manager and more likely to be hired after the interview. One aspect of this research that may explain the results is that bald men were seen as being older than their real age. A survey from Hong Kong found that nearly half of all companies there discriminated against baldness.
Out of the 113 employers polled forty-three percent said they would not hire people with hair-loss for customer service jobs, and 26 percent would refuse them for managerial positions where they would be required to represent their firms at important meetings. Is there any good news? Well, yes. Bald and balding men are generally perceived as being more intelligent, which is a very small consolation when they lose out in so many other areas. And that leads us to how to regain hair loss....