The Cheerleader Effect

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03 Dec 2013, 2:30 pm

A tip for those of you who enjoy online dating.

http://news.yahoo.com/cheerleader-effect-123500090.html

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...If your goal is to be perceived as attractive (and let's be honest, whose isn't?), then new research by Drew Walker and Edward Vul at the University of California, San Diego suggests your best bet is to opt for a group shot with friends.

A photo with friends conveys the fact that you are amiable and well-liked, but oddly enough that is not what makes you more appealing. Instead, the new research shows that individual faces appear more attractive when presented in a group than when presented alone — a perceptually driven phenomenon known as the cheerleader effect....

I suppose that if you didn't have anyone who was willing to appear in a group photo with you, then you could photoshop yourself into, say, a meeting with President Obama, or even Benjamin Franklin.

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03 Dec 2013, 2:47 pm

That's not a bad idea.

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03 Dec 2013, 2:50 pm

lol@dating tips for ugly people

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03 Dec 2013, 5:24 pm

I look like the odd duck out in group photos. I never seem to be looking the same direction or the right facial expression when I try. When I am alone it is easier because you cannot compare my gaze to others.

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03 Dec 2013, 5:29 pm

Absolutly.

Of course, remember that some sites ban group pictures as the default profile, and be careful not to have too many group pictures, or pictures with a big group of women.

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03 Dec 2013, 5:41 pm

and a good way to make them notice how less handsome you are than others.

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03 Dec 2013, 5:43 pm

In my limited experience with dating sites, I am always instantly turned off if the person posts photos of himself in a group (especially if it is not clear which one of them he is!). I think it is partly because groups in general are off-putting to me, and if this is such a socially-oriented person that he only has group photos, I'm automatically not interested. However, "selfies" are an even bigger turnoff.

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03 Dec 2013, 7:37 pm

Well, maybe if you made sure that you were the handsomest or prettiest one in the group.

Just google for some random pictures of ugly people, and make sure that they are uglier than you. Then, use photoshop to combine yourself with the ugly people into one picture.

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03 Dec 2013, 11:11 pm

That would not be hard to do.

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04 Dec 2013, 4:19 am

ArrantPariah wrote:

That should do:

Women now are gonna pile naked on me.

I look short tho.

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04 Dec 2013, 5:17 am

From my experiences, on dating sites its normally expected to have two different kind of photographs in your profile. So there should be portrait photograph, showing you in "dinner-style" (=your going to a date/celebration look), and as well a photograph showing you in casual style, so your everyday look. For the last one, I wouldnt care if it photographed, while being among a group a friends, but the portrait photograph, simply should be portraying you, and not others.

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04 Dec 2013, 8:32 am

Suggestion: Get photographed serving meals at a homeless mission. You will be seen with a group of others, you will be seen doing something charitable, and you will very likely be seen as the best-looking person in the group!

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04 Dec 2013, 9:16 am

I'm arguably the cutest seal in this group, but only cause I'm pushing my friend aside.