The only-posited-after-the-fact explanation is that healthy people are more important to please (since you can get more out of allying with them, since they’ll be around longer). Or in other words, they’re worth more resources.
sure it does, but it is also false.
Unless my brain is literally overriding all other attractiveness information with this one thing.
Hurley (the fat nonattractive character in Lost) would be more motivating to me than Jack (the hot main actor) or her http://images.starpulse.com/news/media/Ciara-short-hair.jpg
why would healthy people motivate me, that is the question that remains baffling.
The only-posited-after-the-fact explanation is that healthy people are more important to please (since you can get more out of allying with them, since they’ll be around longer). Or in other words, they’re worth more resources.
Because it is a good heuristic to do what healthy people are doing? (Except when they are doing something stupid to costly signal their health.)
Does expressing it as “why would attractive people motivate me” make it less baffling?
sure it does, but it is also false. Unless my brain is literally overriding all other attractiveness information with this one thing. Hurley (the fat nonattractive character in Lost) would be more motivating to me than Jack (the hot main actor) or her http://images.starpulse.com/news/media/Ciara-short-hair.jpg