The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness
by Gordon Patzer
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The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness Summary
| Gordon L. Patzer, Ph.D., brings to light that physical attractiveness impacts every person throughout every community across the United States and around the world. Although physical attractiveness is a readily visible feature. The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness documents its frequently unrecognized and often denied dynamics and consequences. Readers of this book will gain insight into the seldom acknowledged and seldom articulated influences that physical attractiveness exerts every day in their own lives, in the lives of family members and coworkers, and in populations of the past, present, and future. Dr. Patzer is uniquely qualified with cross-discipline perspective and long-term commitment to investigate hidden values connected to physical attractiveness that transcend surface looks. In a recent on-camera interview with Dr. Patzer, the primetime television news program Dateline NBC recognized that his formal research into physical attractiveness phenomenon spans more than three decades. With penetrating vision, The Power and Paradox of Physical Attractiveness provides evidence that despite professed ideals, people do judge people by their covers. One ramification is that physical attractiveness as part of a person's appearance is a more powerful determinant of a person's fortune and misfortune in life than people admit or realize. No matter the words, thoughts, and ideals proclaimed by overwhelming majorities of people, these same people judge, assume, infer, believe, act, treat, decide, accept, reject, and behave toward or against individuals, in patterns consistent with their own physical attractiveness and that of others. While many dimensions define appearance, physical attractiveness predominates. All people inherit and alter their physical attractiveness, and complex interdependent factors, physical and non-physical, determine physical attractiveness. Hidden and not-so-hidden values drive thoughts and actions that, when unchecked, produce s... |
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