30 People Rate Their Own Attractiveness From 1 - 10 | Social Experiment

I'm going to give myself a five I'm going to go half I'm being blatantly honest I would say maybe a two an eight 10 out of 10 you got to be confident about yourself how do you rate your looks on a scale of 1 to 10 we're continuing our Series where we Branch out from the usual format and instead ask people for a range of different different backgrounds on how they feel about all things related to beauty and Aesthetics so how do you rate your own looks is quite of a bit of an awkward question to answer so really appreciate everyone who participates in this video as we were looking back at the clips we did notice a specific Trend in the answers that ties in well with some of the research that we've been exploring lately 7 out of 10 well I was going to say six but I said let me just hype myself up a little bit seven or eight I like the way I but sometimes there are days where I don't so maybe like a 7.5 I would say seven probably say um seven well definitely depends on how I'm feeling but probably like a seven out of 10 I think I rate myself a seven so it seems that a lot of people rated themselves a 7 out of 10 and this is in line with what we predicted after researching the topic in more detail just taking one study as an example Cooper atal asked unmarried University students to rate their own attractiveness and found most men and women also rated themselves a 7 out of 10 when asked about the lowest possible attractiveness level that they would consider for a potential romantic partner again most said a s out of 10 I'd probably rate myself about 7even and a half eight maybe I don't know um I don't know I think that I try to make myself look nice and I make an effort probably like a 5.5 6 maybe I don't know I don't don't think I come under like beauty of Standards like High Beauty of standards for sure but I think I don't find myself too bad and that's I think that is exactly why I do not want to give myself a f i want to definitely be a seven I guess NE research found similar results and went a step further by looking at how people rate their own appearance compared to the perceptions of others I think uh I get enough attention but I know I can still improve you know uh I think I have a nice smile and I think my head and eyes go together like my freckles I think it's a bit something a bit different about me I think I'm not conventionally beautiful I know sometimes when I look at myself there are certain features but I don't think others would see me like maybe I would see myself as eight on certain days but I know others wouldn't so a solid six Anan brings up a great point on this where how we perceive ourselves isn't necessarily how others view us and we can see this play out in a greater range in to Grim's 2020 study where most people rated their own looks higher with a 6.03 out of 9 on average or a 6.7 out of 10 relative to the perception of others being rated as 5.44 out of 9 on average or roughly a 6 out of 10 so almost a full point difference this Gap in perception was most pronounced for the least attractive people in the sample while the most attractive participants actually underrated their looks compared to outside's perceptions this Gap is a pretty consistent finding in the literature and Matthew atal study provides evidence for some self-awareness about this effect men in particular accurately predicted other people would rate them as less attractive but persisted in rating themselves higher in spite of that awareness ooh uh I'd say a nine um like I said before I think for me sometimes I like the tip my nose sometimes I don't I think I don't really have the standard kind of features but and proportions of my face but I think somehow they work together certain things I like about myself certain things you know maybe I would change I don't know there's nothing really to say but I mean some I would get I'd say five pretty level number so why do we tend to overrate our attractiveness compared to others well let's look at three possible reasons the first is let's talk about the miror exposure effect this is our tendency to like things in this case faces more the more we are exposed to them we look at ourselves several times each day in the mirror so it makes sense that we would rate our own appearance higher than strangers would consistent with this Theory Jeffrey hadock research showed young people who strongly value attractiveness rate themselves better looking now compared to the Past suggesting we like our own appearances more over time and the more we are exposed to it as a generation and this applies not just to how how we view ourselves but also to how we rate other people's physical attractiveness on the 1 to 10 scale anital use brain scans to examine the impact of repeated exposure on perceived attractiveness and repeated exposure to the same attractive or average looking face activated specific regions in the brain and led to increased attractiveness ratings so we rate complete strangers as less attractive compared to people we're more familiar with including ourselves this is important to keep in mind when we look at these studies on attractiveness ratings where most ratings in this case are given by strangers to other strangers thinking about this more broadly this lack of familiarity is one of the biggest issues with dating apps people swipe left on Strangers who could potentially be a good match if they just got to know each other first uh I think I'm not too bad and then I'm not too great so I think eight is a perfect number for me I think I'm a eight probably a solid 8.5 and yeah I don't want to sort of do too much like a um I don't know I I'm a bit s of probably self cynical and I don't want to Big my myself up too much but yeah probably a good thing to Big on oneself up about so yeah evolutionary biologist Robert triers proposed that self-deception could be an evolutionary adaptation that improves our chances of passing on our genes we found some support for this theory in lal's 2014 research which showed that romantic self-deception or raing yourself higher in attractiveness and desirability than others do predicts romantic successful women this is comparable to the winner effect in the animal kingdom will be observe greater success in subsequent fights due to a boost of confidence after winning an initial fight if positive self-beliefs increases the chance of success it would make sense that we would inflate our own level of attractiveness to likewise also increase that chance I would say 10 I'm quite confident with myself I love my um body my features my height everything about me so I have no problem I think life is too short so 10 thirdly although researchers have shown that people broadly agree on who is attractive and who is not it's possible that we focus on different traits to evaluate our own attractiveness compared to how others judge us for example a 2015 study found that women self- perceived facial attractiveness was predicted by BMI and fluctuating asymmetry while men's ratings for women were influenced by more neony and facial averageness so both men and women were looking at different parts of the face but nonetheless all of these things do contribute to a more attractive face I don't know I just feel like with me it's like I don't feel I'm the greatest looking guy in the world I don't feel like I'm not the greatest looking guy I'm just like average looking or like I don't really have that kind of thing to really make people think I'm goodlooking six I feel like I'm pretty but I'm not like super beautiful like yeah a 9.5 pushing a 10 because I just don't really care what people think about me this is my face I can't really change it elisia talks about not really caring about what people think about her so how important are other people's opinions on when it comes to our looks generally depends a lot on who they are Miller and colleague showed University students were more likely to rate feedback as threatening and avoid feedback on their appearance when the ratings came from close peers compared to low threat evaluators such as students at another University older adults or children compared to their own peers which are people you're going to see face to face some sooner or later I don't think I'm ugly I'm not the most attractive person in the world but yeah me personally I don't give anyone 10 cuz 10 means perfect but I'd give myself a good 8.5 or a nine you know everyone has their own opinion but that's just how I look at myself so I feel like I have like pretty nice distinct features that you know would make me stand out so I not think mesh together well so um I think it depends like some days I I feel really confident I feel like a 10 but then some days like I'm not really feeling so it's like six seven one issue with asking people to rate themselves from 1 to 10 is that their answers are likely somewhat context dependent your opinion of your own attractiveness could be influenced by something as simple as scrolling Tik Tok or not for that particular day and exposure to so many Attractive people all at once could influence how you feel about your own physical looks we can see some evidence for this in the literature where little atal showed that exposure to attractive same-sex images lowered people's self-rated attractiveness while exposure to unattractive images had the opposite effect this exposure effect can be even more pronounced for Attractive people where a 2022 study found highly attractive people lowered their own self-rated attractiveness after looking at other attractive faces wearing makeup compared to no makeup while these same images had no effect on less attractive participants 10 man cuz I just luckily um not not even on a sort of pretentious level um but I've always been comfortable in my own skin I've always liked what I've seen in the mirror um never had any sort of insecurities when it comes to my face or body or or height or anything um I've been blessed in a sense so yeah probably say um seven when I'm ready to be I can be an eight um but yeah definitely a seven just yeah just confident in myself um yeah just confidence I suppose 10 even if you don't even if you you don't think it deep down you have to say it because you can't project off bad energy about yourself so it's always has to be a 10 even on my worst day I'm a 10 period you have to think that a manifest it for all yeah if you don't think you're a 10 who's going to think that exactly so a 10 a lot of our interviewers mentioned the importance of being confident in your own looks and there's a good reason for this both men and women rate confidence as an important trait in a potential partner but is there an optimal level of confidence for maximizing attractiveness Murphy atal ran four different experiments to find out and their initial results show that overconfident people were accurately perceived as more confident which did increase desirability however they were also perceived as arrogant which negatively impacted desirability more or less canceling out the effect but there are some real benefits to overconfidence being overconfident was a net plus when it came to intrasexual competition and the authors asked participants to write their own dating profile then they were given the chance to bet money on if their dating profile was more attractive than another profile and the results show that people were less willing to compete against overconfident opponents while the overconfident ones were more likely to agree to compete across the board in a follow-up experiment the authors found that as levels of competition increased the negative effects of arrogance on overall romantic success seemed to disappear while the positive effects of confidence became stronger so the main takeaway here is that overconfident people seem to have a significant romantic competitive Advantage therefore it makes sense that we tend to overrate our own looks compared to others perceptions 10 cuz it's me as for myself you know I should see myself as a 10 out of 10 all five um you know it's a good solid pass Mark rate nothing too fancy cuz I think I'm cute um but yeah I put in a lot of effort to feel and look nice and be nice I think my personality also shines through Corin mentioned her personality and how it impacts the way she rates herself now you might think personality is irrelevant when it comes to the 1 to 10 scale particularly on looks but we came across some significant studies showing that personality genuinely does influence our perceptions of physical attractiveness looks look at one of those studies where kongal divided 120 people into three groups and asked them to rate 60 women's attractiveness 2 weeks later they rated the same faces again this time with positive negative or no personality information there was a significant boost in rated attractiveness for those with a positive personality and a decrease in rating for those with a negative personality trait ascribed to them and another 2023 study added to this body of research showing that perceived honesty boosts physical attractiveness ratings for both men and women the impact of Personality un perceived physical attractiveness and also the mere exposure effect helps to explain why so many couples start out as friends hunal showed that couples who had been friends before dating had much lower attractiveness correlations range of 020 and 40 compared to those who had formed relationships soon after meeting attractiveness correlations of .52 and 70 meaning that the more attractive couples tend to start straight into a relationship and the less attractive ones tend to go from Friendship to relationship this is another reason why we might rate our own attractiveness higher compared to a stranger's assessment because we're more familiar with our positive personality traits and that influences our perceptions of the way that we 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Published: Tue Nov 21 2023