The Ugly Side of Beauty

Hidden Brain - A podcast by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - Mondays

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We like to tell kids, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” But from a very early age, we humans are doing just that — judging others based on how they look. This week, we bring you the second part of our look at the science of beauty and talk with psychologists Vivian Zayas and Stefanie Johnson about how appearances can often lead us astray.

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