Studies on social proof and its effect on attractiveness and mate poaching

Note: all these links are from a Cracked article but I won’t link to them or even to a copy because of how feminized they’ve become.

Study results - direct quotes from the abstracts:

• Single women were more interested in pursuing an attached target rather than a single target.
• Paired men reported more opposite-sex interest than paired women, whereas the opposite was true for single respondents. Furthermore, the amount of opposite-sex interest reported by paired men correlated with the attractiveness of their partner, whereas this correlation between partner attractiveness and opposite-sex interest did not hold for female respondents
• The results suggested that women’s mate choice decision rule is to copy only if a man’s female consort is physically attractive
• As predicted, partnered women favored attached men at the low-fertility phases of the menstrual cycle, but preferred single men (if masculine, i.e., advertising good genetic quality) when conception risk was high.

TL;DR: Women prefer taken men with attractive partners especially during the low-fertility phase of their cycle.