Last week it was all about people who wear designer brands are not seen as “team players.”
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Now, a new study has found that women who wear makeup are often perceived as “more aggressive.”
The study, published in Personality and Individual Differences, suggests that these types of feelings are only reserved for women considered to be “highly attractive.”
Study author Dani Sulikowski, a senior lecturer at Charles Sturt University, told PsyPost, “When attractive women wear make-up, other women perceive them to be more interpersonally aggressive. When less attractive women wear make-up, other women perceive them to be better leaders. In terms of the women making such judgements, it is those women who report themselves to be highly attractive who tend to be most sensitive to whether or not other women are wearing make-up – and these highly attractive women tend to see themselves as less attractive after viewing other made-up female faces.”
And with any new study, the research included some caveats.
Sulikowski explained, “In this study, women viewed and rated the faces of other women without any specific context provided, so women weren’t told anything about the faces they were viewing, and there was no suggestion that these faces should be viewed as women who were in competition with the participants (for jobs, or romantic partners or anything else). Future studies should now consider whether these effects transfer over to various kinds of contexts (such as social or work environments) and whether they change when such contextual cues are provided.”
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