People with acne have to struggle with these violent prejudices

Anyone who has pimples on their face is stupider and less trustworthy than someone with clear skin: These are just two examples of the frightening discrimination, as US researchers have now found out.

Young people with severe acne, whose faces are marked by pimples and pustules, are systematically discriminated against. This is the result of a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, the Yale School of Medicine and other universities, which has now been published in the renowned journal JAMA Dermatology.

For their study, the scientists had four portrait photos of friendly-looking people with clear skin digitally edited so that each of the people pictured could then be seen in two additional photos with mild and severe acne. In an online survey, more than 1,300 volunteers were then presented with these photos for evaluation.

This showed that compared to their original photos with clear skin, the same people in the digitally edited photos that showed them with severe acne performed significantly worse in numerous statements.

For example, study participants were significantly less likely to want to be friends with people who appeared to have acne and were significantly less likely to offer them a job. They judged her to be less attractive, less hygienic and less intelligent, kind and trustworthy.

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