Should I take my best friend on a blind date?

If your best friend is prettier than you, you shouldn't take her. If you are more beautiful than your best friend, you can take her. Both cases are relatively simple.

However, if you and your girlfriend are both beautiful or not, at this time, should you take your girlfriend on a blind date?

Here involves a concept:

Evaluation models can be divided into two types: individual evaluation and joint evaluation.

In the independent evaluation mode without comparison object, people pay attention to whether the evaluation object itself is good or not;

In the joint evaluation model with comparison objects, people are concerned about whether the evaluation object is better than other reference objects.

If you and your best friend are both good-looking, you shouldn't take your best friend on a blind date.

Because, if you bring your best friend, the other party can easily enter the "joint evaluation" mode, thinking that "although you are good-looking, you are not more beautiful than other girls."

So at this time, you need to let the other person enter the "personal evaluation" mode, so don't bring a girlfriend.

On the other hand, if you and your girlfriend are ugly, you should bring your girlfriend to accompany you on a blind date.

Because if the other party enters the "joint evaluation" mode, they will feel that "although you look average, you are not worse than other girls and acceptable", thus improving their impression of you.