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Drew Walker: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Drew Walker, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• You look more attractive as part of a group than alone

  Show people the same face in a group photo and alone, and they rate it as better-looking in the group. Researchers think the brain computes an average of nearby faces and each one …

  — Drew Walker & Edward Vul, Why Faces Are and Are Not Special: An Effect of Attractiveness

• The same face looks more attractive standing in a group photo than alone

  In a 2014 study, people rated identical faces as more attractive when shown in a group photo than when shown individually. Drew Walker and Edward Vul traced it to how vision encode…

  — Drew Walker and Edward Vul, Hierarchical Encoding Makes Individuals in a Group Seem More Attractive

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