Below is an overlong effort-post on the baleful effects on body-image, wallet, and society of being repeatedly exposed to unrealistic images; I work up the male side more, but offer a thesis, grounded in predictive coding, on both. Please cmt b/c I can't decide if it's malarkey:https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1015457098635907072 …
Yes that’s a good comparison. I was going to say a Hitchcock leading man or prime Clint Eastwood vs now, where even Chris Pratt has to have abs
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I wonder if you could find an effect on e..g, Tinder selectivity with a design sort of like an "event study" where the IV = some new very popular film with hot2deathDreamBoats.
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Haha. Prob both more complicated and simpler (enduring idiosyncratic prefs juggled w/ uneven trendiness & gap btwn make expectations & fem desire) for actual selection. I think there’s some evidence shirtless pics get more likes despite constant carping about them?
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One more thing - what’s the explanation of responding to physical inferiority by buying more stuff? Just immediate, generalized status compensation?
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1/I'll speculate -- crudely. At the bio level, likely related to cortisol/testosterone, glucocorticoid receptors --> dopamine, and serotonin; the mechanics are quite tricky (see e.g. this review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5964298/ …, and note many lab studies don't even generalize to IRL). But
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2/the general idea is that, when a guy ("Brad") sees a more-dominant or aesthetic male ("Araya), Brad rapidly and unknowingly experiences neurochemical changes reflecting the "new prediction" that Brad is lower-status than Araya. This sudden "loss of status" triggers anxiety, b/c
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3/Brad (if he's a fighter) has not yet updated his top-down vision of himself as having at least the status he thought he had when he saw Araya posing at the store-front. Brad then generates (also likely unconsciously) top-down predictions that will "settle the score" b/t the
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4/top-down {PFC &C} ("I'm high status!") and bottom-up {e.g., tuning of social standing signals from sense data --> test/cortison <--> serotonin & glucocorticoids <--> DA/NE) signals Brad is getting. Because the store is right there, available images --> "me buying stuff b/c
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