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Bound_up comments on Cognitive Biases Affecting Self-Perception of Beauty - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: Bound_up 29 May 2016 06:32PM

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Comment author: Bound_up 31 May 2016 02:50:45PM 0 points [-]

Mmm, good point!

Now, I might imagine, in that scenario, that they still self-perceive as less beautiful because of all the attention they're giving their flaws.

But a side effect of no longer doing so and no longer self-perceiving negatively might be a decrease in their effectiveness in countering those flaws...