Justin Garcia

That is telling us something about avoidance psychology.

It's something that evokes disgust.

It evokes an avoidance response.

To your question, part of when we think of these hierarchies, these two things going on, one are what are all the things you want, but then are there things that are turning you off?

And then the big issue with the studies are, okay, can we have a list of hierarchy?

What are the top five or 10 things that people want?

Once you put it in the real world, then you're mixing in this dynamic response.

So you're saying, okay, I want someone who's really tall, let's say, but you also are avoiding someone who maybe is unhygienic.

And those two things come into conflict at times.

So you could say, okay, here are 10 available partners, the tallest person in the room I'm attracted to, but they're also evoking my ideal breaker response, because they're not as hygienic as the nine other people.

The challenge in thinking about these hierarchy lists or giving us our list of the things we're attracting to is, yes, there's dozens and dozens of academic studies where we look at it.

But as soon as we put it into practice in real world scenarios, then courtship becomes dynamic.

And we're weighing all of those things.

And we're also weighing who's in our available pool.

So you might remember there was that meme on social media about looking for a guy in finance, 6'5", blue eyes.

And one demographer ran those numbers.

I think they found there were two men in the country that met the criteria that was in that song.

And it's a reminder that, yes, we can have these lists, but then we go out into the real world.

I'm glad we're talking about this.

And in fact, we have some new data on this idea of love at first sight.