After the attractiveness assessment, groups of papers were given to several college professors to grade, papers which those same students supposedly had written. Each paper had attached to it a photograph of the supposed student. The papers connected to stu dents who had been judged to be physically attractive received better grades for the very same papers than the students who were judged to be unattractive. Buss s research reveals that people all over the world place a great deal of emphasis on physical attractiveness. Further, Buss says the importance of physical attractiveness to both men and women has increased in the U.S. in every decade since studies began in 1939.
Fathers are more involved with attractive babies.
In her study of mothers with their newborns, physchologist Judith Langlois concludes, The less attractive the baby, the more the mother directed her attention to and interacted with people other than the baby . . . . By three months . The author of this article says, Children learn that attractiveness is the key to love. This article, as noted abve, refers to the research of physchologist Judith Langlois. This researcher s studies are also reported upon in the January 2000 issue of National Geographic in an article entitled, The Enigma of Beauty.