Attractiveness: “We want to know who will be there for us if we fall”

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TIME magazine: Mr. Eastwick, someone who is very attractive finds a partner easily; someone who is very unattractive finds it difficult; and we can see at first glance how unattractive or attractive someone is; that is more or less objective. That’s pretty much the myth you’re trying to dispel, isn’t it?

Paul Eastwick: You can say that, yes. In the United States, this ostensibly evolutionary picture of selection is perhaps most clearly expressed in the scale we have all internalized here: “She’s an 8 out of 10,” “He’s a 6 out of 10.” We also like to say here: “She’s in a different league.” This is a really painful and hollow approach.

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