Will Growing a Beard Make Me a More Attractive Man?

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Beard research and attractiveness:

For this investigation, investigators recruited 751 participants and asked them to look at 37 European men through a series of photographs. Some of the pictures featured guys with beards. Other photos showed men who were cleanly shaven.

Participants were asked to rate each person in three distinct categories:

- Attractiveness

- Masculinity

- Dominance

The results were interesting, to say the least. Here’s a rough breakdown, based on the study published in Evolution and Human Biology.

- More than 60% thought men with beards were more attractive.

- Around 80% considered the bearded guys to be more masculine.

- A whopping 62% perceived the men with facial hair to be more dominant.

And it’s not like the participants were a monolithic group. According to the data, the raters were between the ages of 18 to 86 years old. 353 were women and 398, men. Moreover, all of the folks who took part in this study were from various regions in the United States.

Now does this mean you should ditch your razor and start getting your beard on? Not exactly. There are other lines of research to suggest facial hair doesn’t have much of an impact on male attractiveness.

Now, let’s get back to my friend’s question about growing a beard. I’ll share with you what I told him. It went something like this [paraphrased].

If you feel sporting a beard will help you to look more attractive, you should do it. However, don’t focus on what other people think. Instead, center your awareness on how you feel.

In other words, if growing some face fuzz makes you feel more handsome, then guess what – that’s how you are going to come off to others.

It was the famous philosopher, Rene Descartes, who is credited with saying, I think, therefore I am. In the psychological sense, Descartes words very much relate to this topic.

When we perceive ourselves as attractive, we also experience a boost in confidence. In turn, that confidence has a way of enhancing our self-esteem.

As the adage goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But what’s often left out of the equation is your eye, meaning how you perceive yourself.

The windup is this. My buddy eventually started growing a beard. In fact, he kind of transformed himself into a rugged, manly beast!

Did his dating luck change? That remains to be seen. But from what I can tell, he’s feeling a lot more confident about how he looks.

Are you a man who sports a beard? Do you feel you it makes you look more attractive?

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