To elaborate: I am talking about the initial meeting and dating phase. Once you are in a more committed relationship this will be an entirely different conversation. I am asking which type of man is initially most attractive for a woman who is still single and looking.

I ask as a follow up to the previous post about restricted socisexuality which mentions this research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513808000032?via%3Dihub

I have always thought it was common knowledge that women intellectually preferred men who showed maturity, restraint, self-control, and decisiveness. That women saw these traits more in men who showed resistance to feminine wiles. And therefore (somehow) such men were deemed more valuable because they show with their behavior that they can be more depended upon.

Since such men can't be easily seduced by other women, his friends, trends, gossip, prejudice, or hearsay he is more able to regulate his own thoughts and feelings totally independently from the usual influences - including your own. It means that such a man will not be putty in your hand. All the usual outside influences will not have any significant sway or power in his own actions or on his decisions/choices within the scope of his relationship with the woman he is dating.

On the flip side you have those men who give women instant attention and are easily swayed, influenced, and lulled over by women's charms. These guys melt in women's hands and have a harder time resisting women's influence over them.

Then of course there is the gigantic spectrum between these two extremes.

On the one hand you have Stoic, Self-controlled, Serious. And on the other you have Neurotic, Passionate, Flighty.

I ask women here for their thoughts on this, just in case I have been way off all these years.