Plastic surgery may change the way people think about you. Going under the knife to perk up your facial features has become a popular way to try to fight the appearance of aging, but new research is indicating it may also influence how others judge your personality. “In the study, the researchers asked people to rate either before or after photos of women who had had cosmetic procedures. Not only did they ask them to evaluate how attractive and how feminine she was, they also had people make guesses about her personality based on the photos. Why the personality traits? Previous studies have shown that physical features have a strong correlation to certain personality types. They found that people consistently rated the post-op photos as higher on things like social skills, likability, femininity and overall attractiveness.” But some have pointed to several problems with the way the study was done. “Asking people to rate faces on these characteristics is a bit artificial to begin with. The personality traits people were asked to assess have biased terms–like ‘aggressiveness.’ Raters might be saying that faces have certain traits only because they’re forced to make a choice when they might not if they weren’t in a study setting.

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