Even it's hard for normies to break into their social circles: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...ually-beautiful-people-social-situations.html
Discussion Cross-pollination effect (good looking people choose each others as friends)
Birds of a feather DO flock together, especially if they’re attractive: Good-looking people tend to seek out equally beautiful people in social situations
- Researchers asked 172 strangers to mingle and randomly form groups
- They found attractive people tend to gather with other good-looking types
- Attractive women were most likely of all to be at the centre of a group
Published: 05:43 AEST, 24 March 2016 | Updated: 07:54 AEST, 24 March 2016
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If you've ever found yourself excluded from a clique, it may be you're just not good looking enough - according to science.
A study has found that people rated as attractive tend to seek out equally attractive people in social situations.
And attractive women were most likely of all to be found at the centre of a group, the researchers said.
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Researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand, Oxford University and others carried out a giant experiment using hidden cameras on the roof of a sports stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand.
They gathered 172 people who did not know each other and asked them to form groups.
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They were asked to 'mingle' while the researchers set up the study, and to form groups of any number and composition and raise their hand once this was done.
They were also directed to form new groups eight more times in the space 600 sq metres (6,458 sq ft).
THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Researchers found that attractive people tend to gather with other good-looking types.They gathered 172 people who did not know each other and asked them to form groups.
They found that on average, participants formed groups of six individuals, and that they were more likely to approach others of similar attractiveness.
Attractive women were most likely of all to be found at the centre of a group, the researchers said.
Each individual was given a numbered cap to wear, so they could be identified from above.
Their pictures had been taken earlier, and their faces rated by three members of the research team for attractiveness.
Study lead author Professor Jamin Halberstadt, of Otago's Department of Psychology, said: 'For one, we wanted to know if people group together based on physical traits that they share, such as gender or physical attractiveness.
'We also wanted to find out if these traits predicted the physical position of individuals in their groups.
'Finally, we sought to determine if how close they stood to others would predict how cooperative they would be in a future group task.'
The researchers found that on average, participants formed groups of six individuals, and that they were more likely to approach others of similar attractiveness.
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Professor Halberstadt said: 'Women and attractive individuals were also more likely than men and unattractive individuals to be in the centre of their groups.
'Our analysis could not confirm whether this was because they acted as 'social attractors', although this is the likely explanation -- as we didn't find evidence that they were jumping into the middle of the group as it formed.'
Co-author Dr Jonathan Jong, from the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford, said 'Our main breakthrough came in knowing what to film and how to analyze the film later.
'Most measures of cooperation are pretty overt or direct, but we looked at the subtleties of how people moved during the cooperation task, and devised algorithms to analyze the data in order to obtain the results.'
The research was published in PLOS One.
Its not surprising, why would anyone want to be around someone uglier/dumber/poorer than themselves?
Yeah.
Most people are in friendships/relationships for personal gain, yes.
so friendcels are fakecels
no surprise there
no surprise there
ANother thing to highlight.
An ugly or average looking person if they were friends with an attractive person their social status will get boosted. This is cross-pollination effect.
Normies always try their hardest to be friends with Chads and Stacies because they know they'll benefit with having friendships with them. Possibly gain access to attractive partners (not 100% guaranteed, of course).
An ugly or average looking person if they were friends with an attractive person their social status will get boosted. This is cross-pollination effect.
Normies always try their hardest to be friends with Chads and Stacies because they know they'll benefit with having friendships with them. Possibly gain access to attractive partners (not 100% guaranteed, of course).
You're right.
Well, there's a possibility if their friends are just as unattractive as they are.
Ugly men can still be friends with other ugly men, but however even ugly men don't want to be friends with each other because they know can't benefit from it, and will always look for a chance to dump their friend to get with a better looking friend. Very brutal.
But yes all in all you're right (and it comes full circle). Having friends is a normie/Chad/woman/Stacy trait.
Ugly men in friendships with other ugly men, just view their friends dragging them down, and ultimately see them as a burden that they have to carry (along with dragging themselves).
Just like how a woman wants to get rid of an unwanted baby through abortion or put it into adoption.
Just like how a woman wants to get rid of an unwanted baby through abortion or put it into adoption.
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