An older academic study found that college-aged men found normally attractive women much less attractive after watching just a few minutes of Charlie’s Angels, which featured three of the most beautiful actresses of all time: Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson. Doug Kenrick, one of the study’s authors observed: “As in the case of exposure to extremes of water temperature, exposure to extremes of physical appearance affected people’s judgments of what was average. As we had predicted, an average-looking woman was judged significantly uglier than normal if the subjects had just been gazing at a series of beauties.”
In a follow-up study, men rated their current partners as less desirable after viewing photos in Playboy and Penthouse,
In a follow-up study, men rated their current partners as less desirable after viewing photos in Playboy and Penthouse,