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| 5 | Scientific study: Being honest actually increases attractiveness. It's also attractive to be intelligent and independent (both together). | HomeWasGood | /r/seduction | 14/10/16 02:45 PM |
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| 1 | Scientific study: Being honest actually increases attractiveness. It's also attractive to be intelligent and independent (both together).You are correct - I am a behaviorist! I am in my fourth year of a doctoral program in clinical psychology. There's nothing wrong with binary thinking if it's adaptive (it does work in certain circumstances - I tend to think that murdering random people for no reason is totally wrong, for instance, and I'm not going to see shades of gray there). Also, if you're around 20-ish years old then it's developmentally appropriate for you to think in black-and-white terms - you should expect a little of t… | /r/seduction | 14/10/16 05:07 PM |
| 1 | Scientific study: Being honest actually increases attractiveness. It's also attractive to be intelligent and independent (both together).This goes more into the philosophy of science, but a scientist will absolutely not discard a study just because it's judged to be weak, or non-generalizable to a general population. That represents a black-or-white kind of thinking that doesn't belong in science. Instead, weak evidence is simply that: weak evidence. It's not equivalent to NO evidence, neither it is strong evidence. It occupies an intermediate position. The study in question represents a certain slice of the population, so it can… | /r/seduction | 14/10/16 04:45 PM |
| 1 | Scientific study: Being honest actually increases attractiveness. It's also attractive to be intelligent and independent (both together).I'm seeing that in the original study, it says the participants were "psychology students." I've done behavioral research at two universities and in both, this means students in undergraduate psychology courses and not necessarily psychology majors. But I think it's possible that it really does mean psychology majors. But also consider that psychology is a popular degree and the vast majority of psychology students don't actually go on to practice psychology or work in a psychology-related field… | /r/seduction | 14/10/16 03:45 PM |
| 1 | Scientific study: Being honest actually increases attractiveness. It's also attractive to be intelligent and independent (both together).That's an interesting theory and there is some merit to it. It's true that there is some selection bias when choosing psychology students as research subjects. You can find an interesting study about that here if you're interested in the science. That having been said, there are reasons to think that this isn't disqualifying for this particular study. First, studies like this don't use psychology majors exclusively, but students in psychology courses like psych 101. Virtually every university I … | /r/seduction | 14/10/16 03:36 PM |
| 5 | Scientific study: Being honest actually increases attractiveness. It's also attractive to be intelligent and independent (both together).Well, I'm a behavioral scientist, so I should remark that you're right that one experiment doesn't prove a principle to be true. Actually the website says that specifically in their "about science" page. Secondly, there are some flaws in the experiment, but there are flaws in our own judgment as well. This is simply a piece of evidence that can be expanded on, tested, replicated, etc. I'm happy to talk about what your specific objections to the methodology are and whether they should be consider… | /r/seduction | 14/10/16 02:59 PM |
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