It has been suggested that because of society's reaction to them, the facially attractive develop greater social skill. Support for this notion has come from the work of Goldman and Lewis (1977) who found facially attractive students to be judged to have greater conversational expertise. The present experiment, in which the faces and conversations of students were independently evaluated, found no evidence to support this view.
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