VIDEO: Are Sexy Girls Not Good at Anything?

Hot girls can be quite clumsy, which won’t be overshadowed by how good looking they are. This video is a funny compilation of sexy girls’ funny fails.

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Jokes aside, though, when did it become a fact that good looking people, girls especially, are dumb?

According to Psychology Today, to understand how caregivers propagate the intuition, consider what happens when a kid wants to do something that he finds enjoyable and his caregiver finds dangerous, like jumping on the couch. The caregiver is likely to say something like, “don’t do that-you will fall down and hurt yourself!”

Such a message emphasizes a negative correlation between what the kid finds enjoyable, and what the caregiver thinks is dangerous, thus imprinting the idea that enjoyability is inversely related to functionality. Now, consider another scenario, one in which the kid doesn’t want to do something because it is boring (like homework) and the caregiver thinks is functional.

The caregiver is likely to say, “only kids who do their homework will succeed in life!” Again, such a message imprints a negative correlation between enjoyability and functionality.

When the kid engages in an activity that he enjoys and the caregiver thinks is functional-like swimming-the caregiver doesn’t need to intervene. Likewise, when the kid refrains from an activity that he does not enjoy and the caregiver thinks is not functional-like drinking beer-the caregiver doesn’t need to intervene.

Now, all this would be of mere academic interest if the more fun = less good intuition did not hurt people. But it can-in at least two ways. First, people who subscribe to the intuition seem less happy than those who don’t. It is easy to understand why: if you believe that fun things are bad for you, then you are prone to chastising yourself for partaking of fun activities.

Second, people who subscribe to the intuition, and to its cousin-the “more attractive = less intelligent” intuition, are likely to levy an attractiveness penalty on others. Naylor and I found that when a professor was described as “good looking” and “fun loving”, students thought that they would learn less from him than from another professor who was described as less good looking and fun loving.

Before closing, I would like to comment on one other issue. As some of you may have noted, the phenomenon I have just described runs counter to the well-established halo effect findings.

According to the halo effect, attractive people, when compared to their less attractive counterparts, are automatically imbued with a host of more positive traits, from greater warmth and intelligence to professionalism and sincerity.

Although we haven’t explored this issue fully yet, our preliminary findings suggest that when we meet an attractive person, both effects happen simultaneously. That is, even as we are taken in by their good looks, we simultaneously entertain the possibility that their good looks signal lack of intelligence.

Which of these two effects “wins” likely depends on a variety of factors, including how the person behaves in the first few minutes of the encounter. Good-looking people who establish their credentials early on may reap the benefits of the halo effect without suffering the attractiveness penalty.