think of their personality. There have been several times when someone has mentioned to me that an individual is fairly short and I've gotten confused because I was sure they were fairly tall. I suppose some people focus more on physical characteristics (after all, at least some still saw these people as short), but some have more of a mental image of the individual.

And of course, what people think of as beautiful and ugly vary greatly. There's an amusing part of Barcelona (1994) where the main character decides he's not going to date attractive women anymore because they're too much trouble. So he starts dating a woman he thinks is bad looking - then finds out later that she's considered very attractive.