http://www.newsweek.com/study-finds-men-nice-women-not-other-way-around-261269
Although the main finding of this study is as RP gospel as it comes (Women aren't attracted to nice guys), there's some other nuanced findings here as well.
Basically, this study is interesting because it directly tested the role of "nice guy behavior".
Key points:
A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin recently found that while men were attracted to nice-seeming women upon meeting them, women did not feel the same way about men.
The study does this by examining how important is LTR potential to being assessed favorably by women when meeting initially.
This is key, as Nice guys™ often think BP behavior is the key to impressing women:
The study examined burgeoning sexual interest and the participants’ feelings on the possibility of long-term dating with their new “partners,” and how those connected to their perceptions of a personality trait the study calls “responsiveness.”, [which] is defined as a characteristic “that may signal to potential partners that one understands, values and supports important aspects of their self-concept and is willing to invest resources in the relationship.”
Oh, "understands, values and supports important aspects of their self-concept..." Well obviously women will be attracted to men like this!! This is what women, feminists and society tells us all the time! It has to be true!
But [responsiveness] was not as important of a factor when you first meet someone, according to the study. "Our findings show that this does not necessarily hold true in an initial encounter..."
Huh? I don't get it....
when women perceived their male partner to be "responsive", they were less attracted to the man...In other words, it appeared that in an initial encounter men liked nice ladies; women thought nice guys were kind of lame.
WHAT? I thought all women wanted was a kind-hearted man to takes their hopes/dreams/emotions seriously?
"Treat her like a fucking human being!" (every piece of shitty advice in other subreddits)
The second study required participants to engage with either a responsive or unresponsive person of the opposite sex, then interact with them online while detailing a current problem in their life. The goal here was to remove the potentially confounding elements of live social interaction (smiling, physical attractiveness) to see if they could isolate how much "responsiveness"—or niceness—played into attraction.
Oh, well obviously the men in the study all looked like movie stars. Once a woman truly sees a nice guy's nature, she will appreciate it!
Again, the men in the study thought responsive and attentive women were more attractive as potential partners, while women found men with those same traits to be less desirable.
Uh oh...a second corroborating result? The patriarchy must be REALLY strong to have brainwashed these poor women like this...right guys? Pls...
A third part of the study basically found that men equate "responsiveness" in women as being vital to their femininity & their sexual attractiveness. Again, men find feminine & supportive women desirable (inb4 women citing her master's degree in communications and "well traveled" college years as why men should like her).
But here's the gem:
While the studies shed some light on why men find responsive women more sexually desirable, Birnbaum explains that researchers are still unsure why women are less sexually attracted to "responsive" strangers than men [are].
Facepalm...
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