Surprisingly, however, when telephone interviews were included in the process, beautiful people did better, even though they were unseen by the employers. A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetically given looks may have encoded into their voice patterns a tone of confidence that could be projected over the phone.
但是，令人惊奇的是，当在这个过程中包含了电话面试的时候，即使他们在没有被雇主看见的情况下，容貌较好的人也表现更佳。基于遗传的良好相貌并在社会生活中加以强化，可能已经在他们的声音模式中植入一个 通过电话可以投射的自信的语调。在这种时候，天生的因素和后天的培养完全交织在一起。