229! Attractiveness

How important is attractiveness? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about self-rating, the butt phase, dating apps, dating profiles as brand strategy, TMI, and hotties. They don’t talk about teratophilia. 

references 

• Debutante Ball's are real 

• ... as are narwhals 

• "Physical and Psychosocial Correlates of Facial Attractiveness" by Marco Costa and Dario Maestripieri (PDF) 

• "80% Of Women Choose Only The Top 20% of Attractive Men" Is A Big Fat Incel Lie 

• Pew Research: The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating 

• Institute for Family Studies: On Internet Dating Sites, Women Prefer Men With Higher Incomes and More Education 

• Fast Company: I Found Out My Secret Internal Tinder Rating And Now I Wish I Hadn’t