New study: Men With Attractive Wives Report Higher Levels Of Marital Satisfaction; Women Aren't Affected By Husband Attractiveness

dittendatt · 2013-11-20T15:47:40+00:00

The study has no exogenous variation thus it is just reporting correlations. In other words, you cannot tell the difference between "Men who are happier have more attractive wives" and "Men who have more attractive wives are happier".

koti4246 · 2013-11-20T15:48:02+00:00

I'm completely shocked that having a hot wife would lead to happiness

TheMongooseTheSnake · 2013-11-20T15:39:15+00:00

When I was the massage therapist to a woman with an unattractive husband, she told me constantly how dissatisfied she was and how she wanted to shag another man.

doctermustache · 2013-11-20T14:58:09+00:00

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sekerzitski · 2013-11-20T18:54:56+00:00

Women are affected by husband's income.

JaxHostage · 2013-11-20T19:26:29+00:00

And in other news, new study finds that water is indeed wet.

piperson · 2013-11-20T22:35:27+00:00

I was married to an attractive woman and it definitely did not make me happy. She was more jealous and insecure than anyone I've ever met. she thought because every guy was hitting on her that it meant I was hitting on every other girl. It was hell and though I loved her, I had to let her go for my sanity.

Close · 2013-11-20T19:43:22+00:00

In other news: Sky is blue, grass is green.

2013-11-20T16:39:48+00:00

Uh...maybe men with more attractive wives are married to attractive wives because they have the other parts of their lives in order?

electricmice · 2013-11-21T05:53:37+00:00

one must consider that the men who had attractive wives were men who did not have to settle for a woman he didn't want. if he can get an attractive wife, it would mean he could shop around quite a bit before picking her.

percyclevland · 2013-11-20T18:41:00+00:00

"Good looks" on a man are the same as "smarts" on a woman.

They're appreciated but, they're not a deal breaker.

Plus don't women assume that a man with looks isn't probably a keeper? He's good looking he must have option!

chipotlenapkins · 2013-11-20T18:49:43+00:00

Please, define "attractive".

CheapSheepChipShip · 2013-11-20T19:20:56+00:00

So what are you supposed to do "if you wanna be happy for da rest of your life?"

aleigh80 · 2013-11-21T02:53:50+00:00

That's amazing. I wonder how much that study cost?

eirunn · 2013-11-21T04:56:52+00:00

...just money.

iceymountie · 2013-11-21T16:46:04+00:00

Or It could be happier men have attractive wivves. For example a happy guy usually has a good job, loving family, great group of friends, and because he is happy he's confident and has a good personality. This kind of guy is a catch and is what a lot of women look for in a man. My buddy ran into Peachez (the guy from Keys to the VIP [we live in the GTA]) at the gym and my friend half jokingly asked him how do I pick up women. His response was you don't, focus on your life, improve yourself and let women come to you. Truer words have never been spoken.

2013-11-20T22:50:51+00:00

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princeton_cuppa · 2013-11-20T21:45:04+00:00

new study needs more $

5p3ak3r0ftruth · 2013-11-20T22:29:58+00:00

Jimmy Soul disagrees.

Cyberhwk · 2013-11-20T23:10:48+00:00

While this it's interesting, you have to pay attention to the relative attractiveness. They've also found the larger the disparity in attractiveness, the lower the marital satisfaction. Jealousy and resentment tend to fester in these situations.

GSpotAssassin · 2013-11-21T01:38:17+00:00

No fucking shit, eh?

2013-11-21T02:08:21+00:00

What were the results for lesbians?

sandman56 · 2013-11-21T04:48:19+00:00

Well of course. Even allowing for differences in one's definition of attractiveness a pretty woman is a trophy for 25 and 55 y/o men alike.

n2dasun · 2013-11-22T18:37:49+00:00

I'm sorry. The conclusion made here (men care about looks more than women do) is stupid. What's going on here is less about the woman's looks than her confidence about her looks. A man with a confident wife is more likely to be happy, because he will live with someone who loves herself and has room to love him, rather than someone who hasn't fully accepted herself and might be entering into a relationship to fill those holes in her emotions.

HellaSober · 2013-11-21T00:02:33+00:00

We are playing telephone here (news articles on studies are rarely accurate in the first place) and the person posting the article is either bad at this game or likes sensationalism enough to put an outright lie in the title. Here is the relevant quote from the article from the study:

"The significant effect of wives’ attractiveness on husbands’ satisfaction was significantly stronger than the nonsignificant effect of husbands’ attractiveness on wives’ satisfaction, indicating that partner physical attractiveness played a larger role in predicting husbands’ marital satisfaction than it did in predicting wives’ marital satisfaction."

They didn't find that women aren't affected by husband attractiveness (it sounds like the signs were the same), they found that it isn't significant. That's a big difference.

heartless559 · 2013-11-21T04:18:16+00:00

How do they quantify attractiveness? I understand I as an individual can decide I think person A is more attractive than person B, but how do you make that attribute quantitative rather than qualitative in some way?

Title	New study: Men With Attractive Wives Report Higher Levels Of Marital Satisfaction; Women Aren't Affected By Husband Attractiveness
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Date	November 20, 2013 12:58 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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