Jess 19's Comments
Alex - scientists have also known for decades that beauty = good genes and fertility.
L - a large part of what we consider "beauty" is youth. Even is a face is not all that attractive, if it's young, the person will be more fertile.
Other symbols of fertility/health in areas other than the face (in women) include a low waist/hip ratio, healthy weight, full breasts, and shiny hair.
Carl - Attractiveness in males is not as important, as status and fidelity is considered just as (or even more) desirable than genes by women. Maybe that's why asymmetrical male faces could be considered more attractive than asymmetrical female faces.
This is the evolutionary psychology perspective. Keep in mind that it focuses on the species as a whole rather than specific individuals.
L - a large part of what we consider "beauty" is youth. Even is a face is not all that attractive, if it's young, the person will be more fertile.
Other symbols of fertility/health in areas other than the face (in women) include a low waist/hip ratio, healthy weight, full breasts, and shiny hair.
Carl - Attractiveness in males is not as important, as status and fidelity is considered just as (or even more) desirable than genes by women. Maybe that's why asymmetrical male faces could be considered more attractive than asymmetrical female faces.
This is the evolutionary psychology perspective. Keep in mind that it focuses on the species as a whole rather than specific individuals.
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I am aware how Australians spell "Arse". Who cares how you spell a slang word? Personally I both pronounce and spell arse as "ass". It's not like I'm ever going to use the word in any official context so what does it matter? Clearly I have some knowledge of spelling and grammar and you choose to completely discount whatever I say because I choose to spell ass the way I want.
There's no need to critisise me just because you don't like psychologists (yes, I remember you).
There's no need to critisise me just because you don't like psychologists (yes, I remember you).
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*sigh* - so true! If you want a decent job as a psychologist in Australia, you have get three degrees!
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Sorry to get all technical on your ass but I am studying psychology!
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Haha, cognitive dissonance. Not quite appropriate for this post. That would imply that as a consequence of eating these "mallow fries" of your own free will - which you appear to find unappealing, you would experience conflict, and the way you would resolve that conflict would be to convince yourself that you actually wanted to eat them and in fact enjoy the taste.
However if there were some sort of external motivation (e.g. somebody paid you to eat them), you wouldn't experience that conflict and would still find them disgusting.
But I get what you were getting at - there's nothing worse than for example, when you take a swig of what you thought would be water when it's in fact milk. Milk isn't gross on its own (neither are marshmellows), but when you expected to taste something else then it totally is!
However if there were some sort of external motivation (e.g. somebody paid you to eat them), you wouldn't experience that conflict and would still find them disgusting.
But I get what you were getting at - there's nothing worse than for example, when you take a swig of what you thought would be water when it's in fact milk. Milk isn't gross on its own (neither are marshmellows), but when you expected to taste something else then it totally is!
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Better safe than sorry I suppose. Those engines are probably rusted out anyway. Even if they sold the cars cheap the they'd probably be high maintenence and need replacement parts pretty quickly.
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The last two girls are the same person, only in the second picture she looks older. It appears these are some sort of before and after pics.
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Isn't it ironic that God's "miracle" fruit is the very same fruit that is used in PE class to teach school children how to use condoms and effectively prevent potential teen pregnancies? Dark sided!
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That guy looks like John Howard - Australia's former Prime Minister.
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I remember when Dr Oz said:
"Thin people think fat people are lazy and fat people think thin people are lucky."
"Thin people think fat people are lazy and fat people think thin people are lucky."
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More evidence for evolutionary psychological theory.