An experiment carried out by Harvard University (USA) reveals that children between the ages of 4 and 5 trust the information given to them by a physically attractive person more than they are told by an individual whom they consider ugly. .
In the rehearsal, the children had to name six unknown objects. And it was suggested that, to carry out the task, they should ask an adult for help. By showing the photos of two subjects they did not know and asking them to indicate which of them they thought would know the answer (and therefore who they would ask), the kids mostly chose the subject with the most beautiful face as a "reliable informer ". "Children trust people with attractive facial features more, although there is no reason to think that this makes them have more knowledge or more information", concludes Igor Bascandziev, co-author of the work published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology . Their goal now is to determine if that predisposition holds up as they grow older.
