Gap Fill - Level 5

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Researchers have found there could be a reason why women spend so in the morning getting ready – they get paid if they wear makeup and do their . Two sociologists concluded that people get paid around 20 per cent more than "average" people. Both attractive men and women tended to earn more. One said: "For men, only about of the effect of attractiveness is to grooming….I think that we more readily judge women, and so becomes important to them."

The study was from in Chicago and California. It will be in the Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Researchers analysed from 14,000 people who spoke about their , job, education, personality, behaviour and other . The interviewers also rated each person on attractive and well groomed they were. Researchers said people were biased about because of a 'halo effect'. People think someone who is attractive on the outside is also beautiful on the . The idea that humans are influenced by beauty is not .

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