What are the benefits of being beautiful? What are the drawbacks?
What will be an ideal response?
It has been shown that good-looking people have more friends, better social skills, and
a more active sex life. Beauty can give the attractive individual an advantage. For
example, research by Downs and Lyons (1991) showed that Texas judges set lower
bail and imposed smaller fines on suspects rated as attractive rather than as
unattractive. However, beauty also has its pitfalls. When one is attractive, it is hard to
tell whether attention received is for one's good looks or for actual performance. A
second disadvantage is that there is pressure to maintain appearance, pressures that
could contribute, for example, to disordered eating such as bulimia and anorexia
nervosa.
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a. True b. False
The increase over the past several decades of emotional disorders in children and adolescents has been associated with
a. advances in pharmacology. c. greater availability of illegal drugs. b. increased breakups of families d. increased social isolation.
According to Erikson, after the stage of intimacy versus isolation comes
initiative versus guilt. identity versus role confusion. generativity versus stagnation. integrity versus despair.
Which of the following is the most common and widely recognized sleep problem:?
a. sleep Sleep apnea b. insomnia Insomnia c. sleepSleep-state misperception d. somnambulism Somnambulism