Women Who Undergo Facelifts Are Perceived as More Likeable
Women Who Undergo Facelifts Are Perceived as More Likeable – A team of plastic surgeons conducted a study to see how strangers would perceive women who underwent plastic surgery such as full facelifts, eye lifts and chin implants.
For the study, researchers selected 30 white women who had some type of surgical facial rejuvenation between 2009 and 2013. They took before and after pictures of the women and showed only one set, either before or after, to 170 strangers, and asked them if the patients seemed attractive, feminine, aggressive, extroverted, likeable, trustworthy, risk-seeking, and/or sociable.
According to the lead author, Dr. Michael Reilly, an assistant professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the reactions were very positive about women who had facelifts. People perceived them to be more likeable after surgery and even more trustworthy.
Full facelifts and lower eye lifts had the most favorable response. Researchers are now conducting a similar study on male patients.
Dr. Samuel Lam, a facial plastic surgeon in private practice in Dallas, who wrote an editorial for the study, said that though plastic surgery can help build self-esteem by removing physical abnormalities, it can’t make you happy if you’re not happy inside.
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