Study: People Are Mean To Their Unattractive Co-Workers
The Office, U.S. NBC "Hot or Not" as research tool. A study led by an associate management professor at Michigan State University sought to answer the Question of Our Time: are people mean to the less attractive? The study is simple. Very simple. 114 workers at one workplace somewhere in the "southeast" were surveyed to find how often they felt picked on or victimized by their coworkers. Those 114 workers were photographed. Then a group of unrelated people, who had never met the workers before, ranked their attractiveness. As it turned out, the results of Hot or Not: Science-ish Edition confirmed that those workers deemed less attractive also rated their treatment at the hands of their coworkers most harshly. Age, gender, and length of employment were "taken into account," according to the release from Michigan State University, and found to not be a factor. "Frankly, it's an ugly finding," punned Brent...