Effect of Facial Hair on Retaining Professional Services First impressions are lasting impressions, so when an individual seeks out a professional, i.e. an attorney, they have expectations of a higher standard from that individual. Every human being, has different ideas of what those "expectations" should be in a professional, so things like facial hair or baldness can have either a negative or a positive effect on someone. Much attention has been given to the …showed first 75 words of 1209 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1209 total…experimenter size may need to be reduced. In addition to that, the study may need to be confined to a stricter environment. We found no significant main effects or interactions within the large participant size. I believe that this study needs to be replicated to test for the "Zeitgeist" phenomenon. If further studies show the same trend, it may very well mean that people view beards and baldness differently than they have in the past.