爱思英语编者按：据英国《每日邮报》报道，研究表明，漂亮的人在职场中一般更加出色，即使他们年轻时候的容貌已慢慢褪去。在每一个参与调查的行业中，貌美者都比相貌平平之人更多地从事有名望的工作。研究人员解释说，这是因为貌美的人看起来更加自信。相反，平素之辈则容易被老板处罚。

英国和意大利的研究人员跟踪调查了1957年从美国威斯康辛州毕业的8000多名学生。他们中毕业时被认为是“最漂亮的”往往得到了较好的工作，而且这种趋势一直延续至他们将近退休的时候。

英国埃塞克斯大学社会与经济研究院的学者冈蒂·奈斯表示，长相漂亮的人有机会获得所谓的“美丽奖”。她解释说：“我们发现面容在决定人们的职业名望中发挥着重要作用，这种影响贯穿了人们的职业全程。”

先前的研究已经得出美丽的人群更容易受聘、晋升更快、薪资也比他们面相普通的的同事高4%。

Forget university! It's a PRETTY FACE that helps guarantee a successful career You might be only a pretty face, but it seems that’s all you need to get on in today’s world of work.

A study has found beautiful people do better in their careers – even after their youthful good looks have begun to fade.At each career stage studied, pretty people held more prestigious jobs than plain Janes.

The researchers said attractive sorts may gravitate to good jobs because they are more confident. Alternatively, the plain may be penalised by employers.

The British and Italian team used decades of data on more than 8,000 men and women who left school in Wisconsin in the US in 1957.

This included information about employment at various points in life, school photos that were used to rate their looks and information about their education and their parents’ social class. 

Those rated the most attractive on leaving school tended to have better jobs and more prestigious careers, even when close to retirement.
The finding held even when other factors, such as intelligence and education, were taken into account.

Researcher Gundi Knies, of Essex University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research, said good looking people may benefit from a ‘beauty premium’.
She added: ‘We found facial attractiveness is important in determining people’s occupational prestige at the beginning of the career as it is in the middle or at the end.’

'Or, in other words, the so called beauty premium is stable throughout people's employment history and pretty people are doing better even as they age.'
Writing in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Dr Knies said employers may be drawn towards attractive staff. It is also possible the good looking have the confidence to aim higher.

Previous studies have shown that attractive people are usually hired sooner, get promotions more quickly and earn up to four per cent more than their colleagues who are less aesthetically pleasing.

The latest findings, published in Research in Stratification and Mobility, offer a fresh perspective to the study of social inequalities and could improve understanding of whether looks affect employment.

Together with colleagues from the University of Milan Biococca, Dr Knies relied on data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which graduates from the local university in 1957.

A panel of experts assessed their high school yearbook photos and awarded each a beauty score and then tracked their careers by analysing their employment history.

Those with the highest beauty scores were found to have the better jobs and more prestigious careers over those with lower scores, despite other differences in socioeconomic background, parent education and even their own IQs.

'Our facial features are largely genetically determined and the research raises a number of questions regarding the processes that underlie the reproduction of social inequalities, said Dr Knie.
'For example, do beautiful men and women have higher occupational prestige because employers discriminate against plain people?
'Or is it that beautiful men and women choose more prestigious occupations, for example, because they enjoy a higher self esteem and are more self confident.'