The Psychological Impact of Facial and Eye Anomalies on Children’s Development

The ‘beauty is good” stereotype suggests that people perceived attractive people as having several positive characteristics. Likewise, an “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype is hypothesized to facilitate biases against people with anomalous or less attractive faces. Researchers integrated both into a stereotype content model which is one of the frameworks used to assess how facial anomaliesFacial anomalies influence people’s social attitudesSocial attitudes and, specifically, children’s psychological developmentChildren's development. The mind perception theory is the framework that holds this together. People have negative attitudes towards people with facial anomaliesFacial anomalies, such as those with hemangiomas. Also hypothesize that people have negative biases of faces with visible differences compared to faces without such differences regardless of the specific type of anomaly, as well as that individual differences in psychological dispositions bear on the expression of the anomalous-is-bad stereotype. This examines the psychological impactPsychological impact of facial and eye anomalies on childrens’ development.