Sexy Clothes Make You Look Less Competent
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Does psychologist Peter Glick’s research that regardless of what people may say clothes make the woman?
In Glick’s experiment, both male and female businesspeople were shown a series of videos of a woman discussing her background and hobbies. The scripts and the actress were the same in all the videos, but the woman’s dress and job description changed. When the actress was dressed in revealing clothing and claimed to be a receptionist, her attire “had no effect” on how she was perceived. By contrast, when the scantily clad actress described herself as a manager, the people watching the tape saw her as less competent than “her typically professionally dressed counterpart (wearing flat shoes, slacks, and a turtleneck),” and even estimated that she had earned a lower GPA at a less selective college.
What’s wrong with dressing sexy at work?