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#586 - Dr Khandis Blake - Why Do Women Take Sexy Selfies?

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Sexy Selfies Are a Status Seeking Mechanism

Why is it the case that for women, sexy selfies are a status seeking mechanism? If it's simply the case that this halo effect pretty privilege goes across the board and yet for men, we don't see I certainly don't see as many sexy selfies from my guy mates as I do from my girl mates. Yeah, totally. The evidence that shows that we have these attractiveness biases, some of that evidence is sex specific. So you see these effects manifest more for women than you do men, but not all of them. And then the other two thirds, there's no sex difference so that you get the same effects for men as well.

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