Stand Next To Ugly People!

Research shows that if you want to appear good looking in photos, stand next to someone ugly!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, it's our job, you know, my job, our
job to sort to shift through all the content available
in the world and present you with the very best.
And this morning, I want to hit you with some
revolutionary new research that's come out on the cutting edge.
And here's the headline. I'll just get right to it.
You know, why bury the lead? You want to look

(00:23):
good in photos, research says, and I kid, you not
stand next to someone ugly. Now, I've been saying the
opposite for a while. I've been saying that when I
was on the dating apps, what I would see is
that people would post group pictures and multiple group pictures,
and it would be a little hard to discern which

(00:43):
one it was that I was supposedly swiping right or
left on in the pictures. The problem is, and I'm
just being honest, what I have found in the people
who have a multitude of group pictures on their dating
profile is that they're trying to elevate themselves because they're
not the most attractive person in the picture. First of all,

(01:04):
why do that to yourself? Right? Like, if I look
at a group of people, it's only natural in my head,
especially if it's a dating app and we all know
that's a hot or not game until you swipe one
way or the other, right, I mean, that's all it is.
Until I meet you and talk to you and get
to know you. It's hot or not. But I look
at a picture and be like, well, she's hot, or
maybe she's hot. But there's a let's sen there are
five people in the pictures. You only now have a

(01:25):
twenty percent chance that I think you're the hottest person
in the picture. Like, there's a very good chance that
I will like someone else, So why do that to yourself?
But in this case, what you should be doing is
getting a bunch of ugly people around you and then
taking pictures with ugly people. Another thing is about group
pictures is that people will ultimately only post on their
social media the one where they look the best. They

(01:47):
don't care how you look, which is why we had
to go to a group We had to go to
a group review when it comes to pictures on this show,
because I think we all have a tendency to pick
the one that makes us look the individual dually looked
the best, Paulina, that's me. I'm guilty of that. No,
I think we all are honestly we are. We have
to keep the circle smaller now and involve people from

(02:09):
the outside because I'm not. Because otherwise it's like we
all look like donkeys and Kaylen's perfect, or you know,
you all look like donkeys and I look perfect. It's
just the way that it goes.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
But I had to go through our group photos, and
that was also very difficult because there's a lot of
us and somebody's eyes always closed, somebody's always looking the
other way. I'm like, we're gonna really need folks.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
What you don't know is the pictures you saw went
through eight layers of filtering before you saw them. Well
for sure, but I'm saying like, like you only like
Jason saw some, I saw some, Hosea says something. So
the ones you got were narrowed down from about a thousand,
so we had multiple layers of approval.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
My point is that it was still extremely difficult to
find one where we all looked good.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, I want to read it on that one picked.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, we didn't look good.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I know what I'm talking about. Same Caleb picked the
one where she looked the best, and now everybody's that's
what we see. This is what I mean serving SuperM
it's a natural tendency to only look at yourself in.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
The pictures, and you will understand, no, I'm good, but.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
If you want to look good, I mean, here's the
problem on this show. I couldn't It was impossible. I
wasn't able to do it. I wasn't able to stand
next to ugly people because it doesn't exist. But our
perception of someone's personality can be influenced by the attractiveness
of the people around them. And I think it can
go the other way too. If everyone around you is
really attractive, and somehow maybe you're around a bunch of
tens and you're a nine, this is a problem if

(03:32):
you're the nine. It really is. When a moderately attractive
person is seen next to someone less attractive, they are
more likely to be judged having positive traits like kindness
or friendliness. Even this effect, known as the ugly bystander boost,
suggests that our brains make snap judgment based on comparisons
with those nearby. The study found that moderately attractive faces

(03:53):
were rated more positively when paired with less attractive faces.
Imagine happen to be that person who gets to decide
with the base sign is for good looking and bad looking. Additionally,
people made judgments when they made judgments more quickly in
these fairings, indicating an emotional response inencing influencing their decisions.
He's finding highlight how are social perceptions not only solely

(04:15):
based on individual features, but are also shaped by the
context and comparisons that we make, often without conscious awareness.
So there, if you want to be seen as the
hottest person in the group, then just be the hottest
person in the group. Hello, I'm really glad we did
this research.