I find it interesting that on The Bachelor/ette, it’s quite rare for any of the women (or, on The Bachelorette. the men) to say “Meh, I’m not into you”. Maybe they just don’t show it, but it seems like all of the women want to stay. And the bachelor usually finds it difficult to send the women home. It’s a highly artificial situation, and the women may be confusing their competitive drive to “win” for an interest specific to the man, but it does seem like a large percentage of pairings, in the right situation, can become infatuated.
The brain must have some way to make high level valuations influence the altimate emotion-circuit ‘click’ into infatuation. Otherwise you would just become infatuated just by randomly sitting next to someone matching ‘physically’
(that obviously also happens but is less frequent and probably caused by a correspondingly stronger physical component).
So whatever the pathway is leading from high level to low level it needs learned patterns like “is smart”, “can provide”, “controls the show”, “makes nice compliments”, And the decomposition of these patterns. And therefore you can surely influence these parts by hacking e.g. a compartment were someone matches such patterns.
And then there is the trick to enhance the physical component. As most low level signals show linear correlation of magniture (classical: shouting louder gets more attention) you can also enhance signals by exposing each other to stronger physical signals (being closer, more physical work).
I’ve never watched the show, but if it works anything like the mental model of it that I’ve built through cultural osmosis, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were filtering for compatibility in some way before they finalize the selections. Closer competition makes for good TV; the network’s essentially throwing away free money if a non-trivial number of the contestants give it up as a bad job before they can cause drama.
I find it interesting that on The Bachelor/ette, it’s quite rare for any of the women (or, on The Bachelorette. the men) to say “Meh, I’m not into you”. Maybe they just don’t show it, but it seems like all of the women want to stay. And the bachelor usually finds it difficult to send the women home. It’s a highly artificial situation, and the women may be confusing their competitive drive to “win” for an interest specific to the man, but it does seem like a large percentage of pairings, in the right situation, can become infatuated.
The brain must have some way to make high level valuations influence the altimate emotion-circuit ‘click’ into infatuation. Otherwise you would just become infatuated just by randomly sitting next to someone matching ‘physically’ (that obviously also happens but is less frequent and probably caused by a correspondingly stronger physical component).
So whatever the pathway is leading from high level to low level it needs learned patterns like “is smart”, “can provide”, “controls the show”, “makes nice compliments”, And the decomposition of these patterns. And therefore you can surely influence these parts by hacking e.g. a compartment were someone matches such patterns.
And then there is the trick to enhance the physical component. As most low level signals show linear correlation of magniture (classical: shouting louder gets more attention) you can also enhance signals by exposing each other to stronger physical signals (being closer, more physical work).
I’ve never watched the show, but if it works anything like the mental model of it that I’ve built through cultural osmosis, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were filtering for compatibility in some way before they finalize the selections. Closer competition makes for good TV; the network’s essentially throwing away free money if a non-trivial number of the contestants give it up as a bad job before they can cause drama.