Editing Beauty (section)

==Effects on society==
Researchers have found that good-looking students get higher grades from their teachers than students with an ordinary appearance.<ref>{{cite web|first=Sharon |last=Begley |author-link=Sharon Begley |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/206597 |title=The Link Between Beauty and Grades |work=Newsweek |date=14 July 2009 |access-date=2010-05-31| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100420004627/http://www.newsweek.com/id/206597| archive-date=April 20, 2010| url-status= live}}</ref> Some studies using mock criminal trials have shown that physically attractive "defendants" are less likely to be convicted—and if convicted are likely to receive lighter sentences—than less attractive ones (although the opposite effect was observed when the alleged crime was swindling, perhaps because jurors perceived the defendant's attractiveness as facilitating the crime).<ref>{{cite book|author1=Amina A Memon|author2=Aldert Vrij|author3=Ray Bull|title=Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Credibility|date=31 October 2003|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-86835-5|pages=46–47}}</ref> Studies among teens and young adults, such as those of psychiatrist and self-help author [[Eva Ritvo]] show that skin conditions have a profound effect on social behavior and opportunity.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/galderma/38432 |title=Image survey reveals "perception is reality" when it comes to teenagers |publisher=multivu.prnewswire.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710073856/http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/galderma/38432 |archive-date=July 10, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

How much money a person earns may also be influenced by physical beauty. One study found that people low in physical attractiveness earn 5 to 10 percent less than ordinary-looking people, who in turn earn 3 to 8 percent less than those who are considered good-looking.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lorenz |first=K. |year=2005 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/Careers/07/08/looks/ |title=Do pretty people earn more? |work=[[CNN News]] |publisher=[[Time Warner]] |agency=[[Cable News Network]] |access-date=January 31, 2007 |archive-date=October 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012073953/http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/Careers/07/08/looks/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the market for loans, the least attractive people are less likely to get approvals, although they are less likely to default. In the marriage market, women's looks are at a premium, but men's looks do not matter much.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Daniel Hamermesh |author2=Stephen J. Dubner |url=http://freakonomics.com/2014/01/30/reasons-to-not-be-ugly-full-transcript/ |title=Reasons to not be ugly: full transcript |work=Freakonomics |date=30 January 2014 |access-date=2014-03-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301230021/http://freakonomics.com/2014/01/30/reasons-to-not-be-ugly-full-transcript/ |archive-date=March 1, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The impact of physical attractiveness on earnings varies across races, with the largest beauty wage gap among black women and black men.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Monk |first1=Ellis P. |last2=Esposito |first2=Michael H. |last3=Lee |first3=Hedwig |title=Beholding Inequality: Race, Gender, and Returns to Physical Attractiveness in the United States |journal=American Journal of Sociology |date=1 July 2021 |volume=127 |issue=1 |pages=194–241 |doi=10.1086/715141 |s2cid=235473652 }}</ref>

Conversely, being very unattractive increases the individual's propensity for criminal activity for a number of crimes ranging from burglary to theft to selling illicit drugs.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Erdal Tekin |author2=Stephen J. Dubner |url=http://freakonomics.com/2014/01/30/reasons-to-not-be-ugly-full-transcript/ |title=Reasons to not be ugly: full transcript |work=Freakonomics |date=30 January 2014 |access-date=2014-03-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301230021/http://freakonomics.com/2014/01/30/reasons-to-not-be-ugly-full-transcript/ |archive-date=March 1, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Discrimination against others based on their appearance is known as [[lookism]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Leo Gough|title=C. Northcote Parkinson's Parkinson's Law: A modern-day interpretation of a management classic|date=29 June 2011|publisher=Infinite Ideas|isbn=978-1-908189-71-4|page=36}}</ref>