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#556 - Rob Henderson - How Men Compete For Status

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How Does Winning a Contest Improve Your Attractivity to Women?

How much does winning a completely arbitrary game improve your attractiveness to women? It's a good question. I think that so if you were to carry out that experiment, you'd need to introduce an additional element, which would be other men respecting the winner. You need to observe them being competitive, put it, pedestalizing the person that won. There's just interesting papers on this about how they find athletes and artists attractive.

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