It's Over For lightning/angle frauders, a new study shows the anchoring effect has only minimal effects on perceived facial attractiveness

[The Notorious SLAV]

So, a few days ago I found out that there's an idea in academia of something called the "anchoring effect" when it comes to how attractive someone is. Basically, since first impressions heavily matter, the idea is that if someone first sees you looking the best you can, and better than you usually do, then that first impression "anchors" their view of you, and they will later on keep seeing you as better looking than you actually are.

Except I found out about it via a 2024 study which was pretty ruthless to it, and found that while it kinda exists, it only has minimal effect and is basically meaningless IRL.

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Here, we followed up on previous work which identified an anchoring effect, whereby higher attractiveness ratings were given to a person after viewing naturally varying images of their face presented in descending (high-to-low), rather than ascending (low-to-high), order of attractiveness of these images. In Experiment 1 (n = 301), we compared these ‘descending’ and ‘ascending’ conditions for unfamiliar identities by presenting six-image sequences. Although we found higher attractiveness ratings for the ‘descending’ condition, this small effect equated to only 0.22 points on a 1–7 response scale.

0.22 on a 1-7 scale is basically an equivalent of 0.3 points on the 1-10 scale usually used here. Not even half a point.

In Experiment 2 (n = 307), we presented these six-image sequences in a random order and found no difference in attractiveness ratings given to these randomly ordered sequences when compared with those resulting from both our ‘descending’ and ‘ascending’ conditions. Further, we failed to detect an influence of the earlier images in these random sequences on attractiveness ratings. Taken together, we found no compelling evidence that anchoring could have an effect on real-world impression formation.

Says it all.

 

[RealSchizo]

Angle frauding is valid for pictures , not for real life interaction therefore a massive cope.
People don't see you the way you see yourself whenever you're angle frauding.

 

[AtrociousCitizen]

You can’t anchor your way out of genetic determinism.

 

[CRASH THE CUCK]

if you could anchor your bones then it would actually work

 

[RealSchizo]

if you could anchor your bones then it would actually work

 

[Chud Norris72]

no angle for my genetics

 

[Runt171]

no angle for my genetics

 

[SteelCentaur]

if you could anchor your bones then it would actually work