This post is based on the video – How Facial Piercings Affect Perception of Attractiveness & Intelligence | Ear Nose Brow Lip Rings
Hi! I'm Antonio Centeno. I'm the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, we’re going to be talking about facial piercings and perceptions of intelligence and attractiveness.
This is based off a 2012 study from the European Psychologist. Really, a well done study. They brought in almost 500 people, 230 women, 210 men. They ran them through a number of images.
They came with some pretty conclusive evidence on what do we think of people when we see them with their eye pierced, with their lip pierced, with their ear pierced, with their nose pierced.
Do we think they're more intelligent, less intelligent? Do we think they're more attractive, less attractive? Also, how does this pertain to women?
Why Do Men And Women Get Piercings?
The big thing that I'm going to say to start this off is, guys, I've lived in Austin, Texas.
I've spent some time Portland. I've been in parts of the United States where piercings are pretty common.
However, what you have to understand and what the reason I'm putting this stuff out there is that not everyone in the world is as accepting in certain areas, even in the United States and especially when you get outside, there are some very conservative places where, not just piercings but tattoos are not looked upon in a favorable light.
So I want you to be aware of this so when you travel you're not surprised or if you meet someone who doesn't come from your same background, that you understand this may be something that you have to overcome.
If you're going to work in a conservative industry, let's say you're leaving Austin, you got a great job in New York City but you've never met the people face to face, you need to think “How can I help offset this potential roadblock?” That's my goal with this information is to help you better understand basically what to expect.
Okay. So the study was done in 2012. You guys know I love recent research. If this study had been done 70 years ago, it would not have been as relevant.
A lot has changed in society. Now we’re seeing things are more accepted especially on television and in certain areas. What they did is they took a series of photos. They were digitally crated photos so these weren’t real individuals but they did look real.
They had one with no piercings all that then they had once with single individual piercings. They had the eyebrow pierced, then they had the lip pierced, they had the pierced and they had the ear pierced, and then they had multiple combinations where a person would have maybe their lip and their ear pierced. So they came up with quite a few images.
Like I said, they showed this to 230 women, 210 men. Now, they also measured the men and women who were in the experiment on their openness, their conscientiousness, their extroversion. Basically they ran them through a series of questions. They were able to figure “Okay. Is this an agreeable person? Is this an open person?” I'll talk about that at the very end of the study.
This post is based on the video – How Facial Piercings Affect Perception of Attractiveness & Intelligence | Ear Nose Brow Lip Rings
Do Facial Piercings Affect How Intelligent & Attractive A Man Appears?
So they were shown all of these pictures in a random order. They were supposed to rate them on attractiveness and intelligence. What were the results?
Results were that males with piercings reviewed as less attractive and less intelligent, very clear. It didn't matter who were shown this for, men or women.
Again, men in particular were rated as less attractive, less intelligent. It didn't happen exactly with the women or at least study.
You got to understand, if you're going to get these piercings, that there is a percentage of the population who are going to think you're less attractive and you're less intelligent.
This may play into if you're looking, again, for a job at a conservative industry. You're going to want to be careful about piercings and understand and find ways to offset that. Maybe you're going to have to dress a bit nicer.
Maybe you're going to have to let your employer say,
“Hey, I just wanted to be transparent. If you're going to put me in front of a customer and I'm a lawyer and I'm going to be in New York City, understand that I've got you this type piercing in my lip and in eyebrow.”
Again, you just want to be aware of that roadblock that's coming.
So multiple piercings were the least attractive. So having some piercings made you less but if you have multiple piercings, that made you least attractive and intelligent. I thought this was interesting. The nose piercing had the least affect on attractiveness and intelligence.
People that were open or that had lived in certain areas where they had seen this before, those judges were actually the least affected by this.
So something that a lot of us I know think we know by common sense, but it is useful to remind and it's very helpful to actually have the data. Guys, if you're going to think of getting piercings, if you have piercings, just be aware of the fact that for some people you're going to be viewed as less intelligent, you're going to be viewed as less attractive. It may be a barrier.
If you're thinking about getting piercings, it may be something that you want to be able to remove them when you go to work or be able to work in an industry, live in an area which people are going to be more open and accepting of this and they're not going to hold it against you. All right, guys?
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This post is based on the video – How Facial Piercings Affect Perception of Attractiveness & Intelligence | Ear Nose Brow Lip Rings
