Problem: How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Physical appearance Another factor that influences children's peer status is how they look. When adults meet for the first time at a party or a bar, they base their initial appraisals on superficial physical characteristics. Children do this too. Even newborns, when they are shown photos of unfamiliar faces that have been judged by adults to be "attractive" or "unattractive," look more at the attractive ones (Langlois et al., 2000; Slater et al., 2000). Three-year olds show the same preference, choosing attractive faces over unattractive ones (Langlois, 1986). Adults also tend to attribute positive qualities to people who are physically attractive, and children do this as well (Langlois & Stephan, 1981; Langlois et al., 2000). Children expect to find characteristics such as friendliness, fearlessness, and willingness to share in good-looking peers, and they expect unattractive children to be aggressive, antisocial, and mean. Have these expectations any basis in reality? Judith Langlois and her colleagues (2000) reported research that indeed confirms these expectations and even suggests that attractiveness may be more important than we thought. In a number of studies, even people who knew them well judged attractive children more positively than unattractive children. Need Assignment Help?