Social psychology

Social psychology
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Social psychology
Evidently for a person to feature in a movie, advertisement or any other public platform, auditions are conducted. In the auditions, people who meet certain conditions are selected. The selection is based on some specific physical factors. Height, complexion, figure, dental formulae, stature, smile, hair color and texture among other physical features are some of the aspects which are used by the selection panel to choose the people who meet these standards (Tajfel & Turner, 2004). The same procedure is used when authors select characters of their literary works. They use physical characteristics to build characters in not only images but also in text.
In advertisements, the advertising agencies tend to use people of specific looks. These agencies go for good-looking people or rather “cute” people. They believe that these types of people are the best when it comes to attracting the target groups into watching the advertisements. The same applies to movies as producers and directors select only physically attractive people to feature. They believe that the movies will attract many views when these characters are used (Tajfel & Turner, 2004). Also, in fairy tales, authors use people with good physical features to represent protagonists. As such, it is inarguable that advertisements, movies, and children’s fairy tales use physically attractive people and overlook others.
To counter this social construct, movie producer and directors, advertisement agencies, and fairy tale authors should be advised of being open-minded and consider anyone to play a part in their events.

Even though many may not be aware, they should be made to understand that this is a form of discrimination. With this in mind, they will start allowing both physically attractive people as well as unattractive people to audition and be selected to act in adverts and movies or to be used in fairy tales.
Reference
Tajfel, H., & Turner, J. C. (2004). The social identity theory of intergroup behavior.