Re:How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)
by wccrawford on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:48AM
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I think the point of his story is that it's easier to be a smooth political operator if you look good.
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Re:How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)
by StavrosK on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:48AM
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The GP presented it as if the entire reason that this person was a smooth political operator was that they were attractive, which is trivially refuted, as I've seen attractive people who were bad at politics.
Re:How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)
by mdekkers on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:29AM
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Looking good doesn't automatically translate to being good at politics, but it gives your political success a serious boost, and there is a slew of research that backs this up:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/17/candid... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/sunday/health-beau... http://web.mit.edu/polisci/people/faculty/documents/Lawson%2... http://www.macleans.ca/society/science/the-mysterious-power-...