“…The role of beautifying photo-filters Dion, Berscheid and Walster (1972) were among the first to report that less attractive individuals were ascribed fewer positive characteristics than more attractive individuals. A large body of research has since supported the existence of this bias, showing that physically less attractive individuals are evaluated as less socially and intellectually competent, dominant and mentally healthy (Shapir and Shtudiner, 2021;Nault, Pitesa, and Thau, 2020;Solano-Gómez, and Smith-Castro, 2017;Shtudiner, 2019;Feingold, 1992;Hosoda, Stone-Romero and Coats, 2003). The attractiveness bias influences most domains of interpersonal interaction (Westfall, Millar, and Walsh, 2016;Feingold, 1992), and the occupational domain is no exception.…”