The Untrustworthy Makeup Tutorial

Looks like scientists have been playing with TAAZ! [The greatest virtual makeover site on the planet.]

And here are the Betty and Veronica ways of explaining their recent, interesting experiment about the social effects of makeup. For instance, from the Betty: “When inferring trustworthiness, likeability, or competence from an image, we are influenced significantly not only by the attractiveness of the inherited phenotype but by the effects of the ‘extended phenotype,’ in this case, makeup,” and from the Veronica: “Given more than just a glimpse of the images, participants showed that beauty and competence went up, but trustworthiness — or honesty — soon suffered as cosmetic looks became heavier.” (Might be more of an Elizabeth/Jessica Wakefield difference.) There’s also a hypnotic chart. The takeaway seems to be: Wear lots of makeup but keep moving.