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Are men more attracted to dumb-looking women?

Eric Barker
May 24, 2012

 

The always interesting Jesse Bering breaks down a new study over at Slate:

Ask a straight man, âHow do you like your women?â and itâs unlikely heâll answer, âDumb and sleepy.â But according to new findings, these characteristicsâand any other traits suggesting that the lady isnât particularly alertâare precisely what the human male has evolved to look for in a one-night-stand.

And:

On the other hand, the more psychological and contextual cuesâpictures of dimwitted- or immature-seeming women, for example, or of women who looked sleepy or intoxicated, did seem to have an effect: Not surprisingly, men rated them as being easy to bed. But more importantly, they were also perceived as being more physically attractive than female peers who seemed more lucid or quick-witted. This perceived attractiveness effect flipped completely when the participants were asked to judge these women as potential long-term partners. In other words, the woozy ladies were seen as sexy and desirableâbut only for fleeting venereal meetings. They lost their luster entirely when the men were asked to rate these same womenâs attractiveness as prospective girlfriends or wives.

And:

The main finding to emerge from this follow-up study was that the more promiscuity-minded men who happened also to have deficiencies in personal empathy and warmth were the ones most vigilant and responsive to female âexploitabilityâ cues. Men without this critical calculusâsay, a disagreeable man who prefers monogamy, or a caring one who likes to play the fieldâare more likely to have these cues fly right past their heads and miss the opportunity to capitalize on an âeasy lay.â So rather than the sexual exploitability hypothesis summing up the male brain as one big ball of undifferentiated stereotype, the caveat here is that there are multiple subtypes of reproductive strategies in men. Not all men are pricks, in other words.

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Title Are men more attracted to dumb-looking women?
Author Eric Barker
Date May 24, 2012 6:42 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Blog bakadesuyo
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