Northumbria University study on dance attractiveness0:40
“According to a study at Northumbria University, the dancers found this one.”
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7:00
“And that's kind of what's happened, right? Is that all women are wearing makeup and now, or almost all of them are. And now if you skip that part of your routine, it almost comes across, and it shouldn't, it's unfortunate, but it almost comes across as unprofessional in a workspace.”
Discussed
8:59
“So it was makeup and plastic surgery that they tested on real women's faces. And they had men assess their attractiveness, their datability, et cetera. And what they found was that these methods worked to make them more attractive.”
Discussed
53:57
“And that whole world of what does when you can manipulate the smoothness of your skin using makeup or face tune or cosmetic surgery, when you can get limb lengthening surgery or you can wear boots that have got heels on them.”
Discussed
1:30:29
“So think about different beautification behaviors. I won't bore you by making you guess, but it was makeup. Among people who wear makeup, the men who wear makeup spend way more time on it than the women. Just because they're less good at it, they've been growing up on YouTube tutorials.”
Discussed
1:31:25
“makeup, um, but it was because of that effect. Going back to the clavicular thing, it's kind of fascinating the weightlifting being the biggest change because I don't know whether guys increasing their upper body strength makes a bigger impact on attractiveness or formidability.”
Discussed
54:18
“All of my friends, all of my friends wear cowboy boots because it's a two inch height advantage whilst wearing a cool piece of clothing. And in Texas, you can get away with it. Like all of these different ways, this arms race that's permanently going on.”
Discussed
53:42
“what I actually said about saying, I think that Ozempic is more pushed back against by people who are in shape than people who are out of shape because it derogates the signal of, I got here naturally and there is a sense that that is somehow superior, that is somehow better.”
Discussed
1:39:48
“And I've read The Teacher. Have you read The Teacher? Dude, it is Friday McFadden's the person that did The Housemaid, right? Which Sidney Sweeney just starred in, and then she did The Housemaid's Revenge, and then she did The Housemaid Cometh Backeth, and she's done like The Patient and The Teacher and a bunch of other.”
Discussed
1:39:51
“she's done like The Patient and The Teacher and a bunch of other. And it's just easy reading, right? It's my guilty pleasure. And this one about the teacher, the protagonist, the main guy that usually all the guys in the books turn out to be the bad guy, like that shock horror, Frida McFadden, like the guys turn out to be the bad guys and they're all scumbags the way that they're presented.”
Discussed
1:39:44
“And I've read The Teacher. Have you read The Teacher? Dude, it is Friday McFadden's the person that did The Housemaid, right? Which Sidney Sweeney just starred in, and then she did The Housemaid's Revenge, and then she did The Housemaid Cometh Backeth, and she's done like The Patient and The Teacher and a bunch of other.”
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2:05:52
“I'm going to put this on right now. Heck yeah. Boys, I appreciate you all. You're all awesome. What do you want to plug? Why should people go to check up to Rob Henderson's newsletter on Substack, RobKhenderson.com, and the paperback of my first book, Troubled, a Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. Nice.”
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Studies cited in this episode (15)
As referenced on air, with the quote and the moment. Reported, not evaluated.
Zia and colleagues study on makeup and plastic surgery8:52
“Zia and colleagues in China, they actually tested. So it was makeup and plastic surgery that they tested on real women's faces. And they had men assess their attractiveness, their datability, et cetera.”
Institute of Family Studies data on income brackets and dating patterns1:03:50
“there is the revealed element where it's like, if you look at women now today, and this is from the Institute of Family Studies, where they it kind of, it's a kind of a way of visualizing the data more than anything, but they bucketed different income brackets.”
Paul Eastwick's work on stated versus revealed preferences1:05:07
“I don't know if you've been following Paul Eastwick's work on stated versus revealed preferences.”
Rob Kurzban speed dating study1:07:32
“Rob Kurzban, I think, did one study that did find it.”
Buss and Schmidt's Mate Preferences and Behavioral Manifestations1:12:57
“there's actually precedent for this scholarly precedent where in Buss and Schmidt's Mate Preferences and Behavioral Manifestations, I think that they had classified ads as a behavioral manifestation”
Tinder dark triad personality traits study1:15:22
“There was a study a few years ago on Tinder users back when I think Tinder was still the number one dating app in the late 2010s. And this was only on college students. And they looked at students who had never used Tinder and students who were currently using Tinder. And they looked at the dark triad personality traits and found that the users of Tinder scored significantly higher.”
Whitmer study on facial attractiveness and swiping behavior1:16:54
“That Whitmer study looking at facial attractiveness was 12 times more influential on swiping behavior than height is.”
Whitmer study on facial attractiveness1:16:54
“that Whitmer study looking at facial attractiveness was 12 times more influential on swiping behavior than height is.”
Norm Lee mate budget study1:20:44
“What about that mate budget study that Norm Lee did? Because that was about trade-offs, right?”
PNIS paper1:22:43
“Well, this is something that we proposed actually in our PNIS paper in the discussion section.”
Lee's 2015 study1:25:35
“And we see this even in Lee's 2015 study, where it does seem that when women have their own money, they recognize where it's like, well, I have the financial thing kind of sorted.”
Marta Kowal's study on beautification1:29:40
“That's what the best study on beautification did. It's Marta Kowal's study. And she found that in all except for seven countries, women beautified more.”
David Putz study on formidability and sexual success1:32:54
“So David Putz and his colleagues famously did this study where they brought in a group of men and recorded them in these videos and very, very short clips. And then they brought in a different group of men to watch the men in these videos.”
the TRAVERSE trial
“Haven't you been studying female teacher sex scandals?”