Joshua_Fox comments on Superhero Bias - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 December 2007 03:14AM

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Comment author: Joshua_Fox 01 December 2007 10:19:52PM 4 points [-]

Part of the attraction of superheroes is their alpha male status: The warm glow we feel from power that protects us, the more the better. This is not quite the same thing as the halo effect.