Psychology of Seduction by Jesse James

Author:Jesse James [James, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

A Few Inches of Fame

Are you a huge Game of Thrones fan? Four-foot tall Peter Dinklage plays the lead role of Tyrion Lannister on the show. Since height is the number one physical trait that women find sexy, Dinklage was dealt some bad cards. His name does not help. But fame trumps his tiny stature. Dinklage married a model almost two feet taller than himself. He even fathered a child. Take that, genetic oblivion!

Dinklage owes his reproductive success to what psychologists call the ‘bandwagon effect,’ a well-known form of groupthink in behavioral science. Like fads and trends, conduct and beliefs spread among people with ‘the probability of any individual adopting it increasing with the proportion who have already done so.’157

Individuals ‘hop on the bandwagon’ as more and more people come to believe in something. In the ancestral environment, prior to textbooks, television, radio and newspapers, we derived almost everything we knew about the world from the actions of others. If all the men in our tribe went out hunting, it made more sense to hunt than to make strawberry pie. If everyone in your village prayed to the God of Rain during harvest season, you would not win any friends by laughing at their Rain Dance. In fact, your head might end up on a spike. If most women found a certain man attractive, then other females could not ignore that valuable information. This tendency to unthinkingly emulate the actions and beliefs of others explains why women like famous people.

If everyone finds a certain movie star attractive, can you risk not finding him attractive? This is not a case of chicken or egg. Famous people are attractive because they are famous, not the other way around.

Rock stars, movie stars and professional athletes enjoy enormous sexual success, even more so than wealthy (but not so famous) businessmen. Fame is apparently an even greater aphrodisiac than wealth.

Mate-copying explains why women have sex with movie stars or famous athletes. Females in many different species use the mate choices of others as a basis for their own mating decisions. They prefer males who have been ‘pre-approved’ by other females. In a human study, evolutionary psychologist and renowned sex researcher David Buss found the same effect among humans.

Buss and his team showed women various pictures of men either standing alone or surrounded by other females. Women found the men surrounded by other women to be more attractive than the men standing alone. Curiously, when researchers posed this same experiment for men, they noticed the opposite effect; men found solitary women more attractive.158

Remember Fisher’s Sexy Son? Females benefit by mating with males who are highly desired by other females because they will bear sexy sons who are also desired by other females. Who can afford to step off the evolutionary treadmill?

Peter Dinklage may not be hot. But the fact that millions of people admire him every week makes him hotter than the average midget. Several feet hotter, apparently.

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