Character & Context

The Science of Who We Are and How We Relate

Editors: Judith Hall, Leah Dickens, Colleen Sinclair

May 18, 2022

Why Do Good-looking People Get the Job?

by Min-Hsuan Tu, Elisabeth Gilbert, and Joyce Bono

Handsome African American man smiling confidently

Attractive people get ahead at work—but there’s more to their interview success than just looks. You too can learn their tricks for getting the job.

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Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.

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