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A team of plastic surgeons from\u00a0Georgetown University Medical Center\u00a0found that when a man opted to undergo facial\u00a0plastic surgery, he was generally perceived as more attractive, trustworthy, and likable by others post-procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe tendency to judge facial appearance is likely rooted in evolution, as studies suggest evaluating a person based on appearance is linked to survival \u2014 our animal instinct tells us to avoid those who are ill-willed and we know from previous research that personality traits are drawn from an individual\u2019s neutral expressions,\u201d said senior investigator and board certified Facial Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon, Michael J. Reilly, MD, an associate professor of otolaryngology at Georgetown\u2019s School of Medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This study, published in\u00a0JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery<\/em>, did not focus solely on perceptions of gender \u2014 a man being perceived as more masculine, say \u2014 as a similar 2015 study on facial plastic surgery effects on women did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTaken together, our findings suggest that both men and women undergoing facial cosmetic surgery can experience not only improved perception of attractiveness, but other positive changes in society\u2019s perception of their persona,\u201d Reilly said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reilly and his colleagues set out to determine if society really does prefer men with square jaws, chiseled cheekbones, and more prominent chins. To do so, they used before-and-after pictures from facial plastic surgery procedures done on 24 men who had one or more of the following surgeries: upper eyelid lift (upper blepharoplasty), reduction of lower eyelids (lower blepharoplasty), face-lift, brow-lift, neck-lift, nose reshaping (rhinoplasty), and\/or a chin implant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team designed six surveys, and each included eight photographs \u2014 four photos of a patient before surgery, and four after. No survey contained both photos of a single patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than 150 participants (mostly between the ages of 25-34, white, and with a college degree) took the surveys without any knowledge of the study\u2019s intent. Via the surveys, they were asked to rate their perception of each patient\u2019s aggressiveness, extroversion, likeability, risk-seeking, sociability, trustworthiness, as well as attractiveness and masculinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The researchers then built a model to assess the participants\u2019 perceptions of men who had undergone specific plastic surgery procedures. They found that specific personality and appearance perceptions were linked to specific facial procedures with chin augmentation being the only procedure that did not have an effect on perceived personality traits or attractiveness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upper eyelid augmentation increased a man\u2019s likeability and trustworthiness. Lower eyelid augmentation decreased perceived risk-taking. A brow lift improved perception of extroversion and risk-taking. A face-life increased one\u2019s likability and trustworthiness. A neck-lift increased perceived extroversion and masculinity. And a nose job improved attractiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is really interesting that different anatomic areas of the face have varying degrees of contribution to overall personality perception,\u201d Reilly said. \u201cAnd it is also noteworthy that the study did not find a significant change in masculinity. Just one procedure, a neck-lift, was found to enhance that trait.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reilly said that these findings suggest that the current \u201cmenu of cosmetic procedures for men\u201d are not as gender-enhancing as they may be for women. In a similar study conducted on 30 female patients, increased femininity was significant post-procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\u201cCicero described the face as the \u2018mirror of the soul,\u2019 meaning that a person\u2019s physical appearance is the personal characteristic most obvious and accessible to others in social interaction \u2014 so it\u2019s not surprising that subtle changes in neutral facial appearances are powerful enough to alter judgments of personality,\u201d Reilly said.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: earth.com A team of plastic surgeons from\u00a0Georgetown University Medical Center\u00a0found that when a man opted to undergo facial\u00a0plastic surgery, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[952,955,845,953,68,954,893],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cosmetic-plastic-surgery","tag-facial","tag-georgetown","tag-medical-center","tag-perceived","tag-plastic-surgery","tag-trustworthy","tag-university"],"yoast_head":"\n