Plastic surgery continuously booms in China, helping the local industry to propel to the third top spot worldwide in a few years' time. (Photo : Reuters)
Facial plastic surgery does not only make women look youthful, but more likeable with greater social skills, more attractive, and more feminine, a study revealed.
Live Science reported that the vitality of physical and facial attributes is rooted in history and studies have suggested that perceiving a person according to appearance is nothing but evolving survival instincts.
Michael J. Reilly, assistant professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, said "Our animal instinct tells us to avoid those who are ill-willed and we know from previous research that personality traits are drawn from an individual's neutral expression."
Reilly, who also does consultation sessions at the University Hospital of MedStar Georgetown, quantified and evaluated the modifications in personality perception after varied facial rejuvenation surgeries such as lower and upper eye lifts, neck lift, brow lift, chin implant and face lift.
Post-surgery enhancements were identified according to four traits: femininity, attractiveness, likeability, and social skills. Though not intentionally quantified, trustworthiness also came out.
"Having a lower eye and facelift lifts showed more remarkable results after surgery. Patients who have undergone lower eye lift were perceived to be more feminine, attractive, and more trustworthy," Reilly added.
The study also tried to determine whether or not there were identifiable factors that might have yielded unfavorable responses; however, no single characteristic appeared to be significant. There were patients who were thought-of as risk takers and aggressive, but participants have not associated both characteristics with an unfavorable personality.
The analysis of the study, which involved a small population of exclusively white female contributors, were published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery journal.
