Breakfast Bonus: Being good makes you look good

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A study has recently found that a person appears more attractive if they are seen as a good person - but Sam's not sure if he agrees, or if it even matters

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today, we're
talking about a study out of the Vienna University basically
saying that if you want to look good, you should
do good. People who are doing good deeds perceived to
be more attractive. Other people think, well, look twice they're
given me a once over twice.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I just I just don't believe this. I mean, I
know I actually do believe it, but I think it's
a very very slight increase, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Like I can't wait till you break this down.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Like I think, if you were to put someone very attractive, yes,
you're choosing a partner. Here, you got someone's very attractive
and you've got someone's less attractive, but they're doing altruistic acts.
Which one are you going to take?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
You know what I mean, A nice person?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well, are you actually choose the hot one? If you
choose the hot person mean to people, But if you've
got two people of equal attractiveness and there was one
doing altruistic behavior, then you choose that one, of course
you would exactly. So then it comes down to percentages.
So if this the person's not doing altruistic behavior as
slightly as slightly bitter looking at what point is the

(01:07):
altruistic But I'm talking this is a one percenter's one
percent for me, I'm choosing the hot one nine times.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I know you are.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't know that says about my personality is everything
about She's kind and everything, but she's just a bit
of a minger.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
So people who seem to good people are perceived as
good looking, so they actually changes the way people look
at you. You know, you might you might not look
that attractive.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
That's why really attractive models are nice people because they
don't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Be Oh that's awful, a horrible way to me.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
You don't need it, you don't need to be nice.
Of course you look around this with a snarley look
on their face.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
It also looks for only light switch away.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Let's double down and look at the evolution of this,
because I don't know if you know this, jas, but
I'm a big fan of the evolutionary psychology. Would you
like to know some of the most ultruistic animals in
the animal kingdom?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, these these are the animals that do good things.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Animals that basically serve other people.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, you know what I mean, miss for it. They
just go ahead and do it. That's it, sing their
own phrases.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Best example is the bee who works to serve their queen.
Altruistic behavior and some termites provide great examples of biological
altruism for social insects workers to both their lives to
care for the queen, which is the only member of
this colony, to reproduce the queen. See like we're doing

(02:24):
this view, It's like, well, there's only one lady here,
so we're all trying for is it altruistic or.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Versus smooth fit saying that's why they all love it?

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah. Do you know the vampire beck has for all
eternity been given a terrible name. Everyone thinks the vampire
bat goes around binding people on the next suck in
their blood. Do you know why it's called the vampire bat?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
No? I honestly thought it was because they had things
and black people.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
No, so they have to A vampire bat has to
eat every seventy hours. If it doesn't, it dies. So
the vampire bat is the vampire bat because to avoid
starvation amongst the group, the bats that didn't find food.
Within that finding food period, the other bats will then
regurger take some of their own blood to feed the

(03:10):
bat that didn't get any. So it's not a horrible
animal at all. It's the absolute king of altruism.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I thought you were say, they're the ones that haven't
eaten for seventy hours are about tonight, so the other
ones eat them.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
No, no, no, they feed them the spring up a
bit of blood.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Maybe you should write a paper and this is sent
to the team at Vienna University.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
I mean, what do they know, Jason. All I'm saying
is that you think you're altruistic. But if I was hungry,
would you vomit your blood?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
One? Call me ugly.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
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