Beauty: A Bad Investment
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Kjerstin Gruys |
TEDxUniversityofNevada
• February 2020
Highly attractive people enjoy a lot of unearned perks in life, and appearance discrimination is a serious social problem. However, beauty is not a strong predictor of happiness or life satisfaction. Dr. Kjerstin Gruys explains why investing in appearance is an exercise in diminishing returns, and why we should be investing more in our social relationships instead.