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Researchers at the Harvard Business School claim that people who do not follow " fashion" get more respect from . Doctoral student Silvia Bellezza and two of her examined how we view the status and competence of people who do not conform to "normal" ways of . They discovered that the more people dress, the more they get. Participants in the research considered others who had a "weirder" to be more unique. Researchers said that rather than think badly of someone dressed, many people believe that dressing down is a sign of . Ms Bellezza said: "If you're willing to deviate, there are upsides."

Bellezza conducted a of experiments to test how people reacted to non-conformity. In one, people in different of clothes shopped at expensive in Milan. One group wore casual sports clothes, while the other donned expensive-looking . The sales assistants assumed the ones in the sports were the bigger . In another test, students rated an unshaven, T-shirt-clad professor above an wearing a suit and tie. Bellezza says high- entrepreneurs who dress down may be responsible for changing our . In particular, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's wearing of hoodies and the Steve Jobs' trademark jeans, sneakers and polo neck tops.

 


 
 

 

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