![]() Thanks to the Halo effect, you might consider someone physically and mentally healthy, confident, intelligent, and successful – based on good looks alone. Meeks’ story, and pretty privilege in general, can be explained by the Halo effect: a cognitive bias that makes you subconsciously attach positive traits to someone that you find attractive. Although Meeks was convicted, he left jail with a modelling contract, debuting at New York Fashion Week shortly after his release. The reason? He looks really, really good. The photo became the Hot Felon meme, and thousands of women called for his release. After Jeremy’s arrest, his mugshot went viral overnight. ![]() One extreme example of a rags-to-riches story thanks to pretty privilege is the story of Jeremy Meeks, or as the Internet got to know him in 2014: the Hot Felon. Hot people are certainly given more opportunities and in the age of overnight TikTok fame, they can even make a career out of their looks as influencers or models. Beauty bias works even in extreme cases: beautiful criminals are less likely to go to jail, and even if they do, they get lighter sentences. Over the years, researchers uncovered a myriad of aspects in which beautiful people get a leg up: they are given more attention and earn higher grades during their studies, get more job interviews, and has landed a job, they even earn better than their counterparts. Pretty privilege, put simply, refers to the social advantages, opportunities, and better treatment one receives on the basis of how attractive they look – or rather how much they conform to society’s beauty standards. However, there is one bias that you might be unaware of: the so-called pretty privilege, or the “beauty premium”. Living room 0 Comments 3 8 min read It is no news that some people navigate life with an unearned leg up: privileges enjoyed by men, white people, or the wealthy have become regular topics of discussion. ![]()
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