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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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Men want hot women, study confirms
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.
In the dating game, men know what they want.
And guys won't be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.
"Just because people say they're looking for a particular set of characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, doesn't mean that is what they'll end up choosing," Peter M. Todd, of the cognitive science program at Indiana University, Bloomington, said in a telephone interview.
Researchers led by Todd report that in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their study found humans were similar to most other mammals, "following Darwin's principle of choosy females and competitive males, even if humans say something different."
Their study involved 26 men and 20 women in Munich, Germany.
Participants ranged in age from 26 to their early 40s and took part in "speed dating," short meetings of three to seven minutes in which people chat, then move on to meet another dater. Afterward, participants check off the people they'd like to meet again, and dates can be arranged between pairs who select one another.
Speed dating let researchers look at a lot of mate choices in a short time, Todd said.
In the study, participants were asked before the session to fill out a questionnaire about what they were looking for in a mate, listing such categories as wealth and status, family commitment, physical appearance, healthiness and attractiveness.
After the session, the researchers compared what the participants said they were looking for with the people they actually chose to ask for another date.
Men's choices did not reflect their stated preferences, the researchers concluded. Instead, men appeared to base their decisions mostly on the women's physical attractiveness.
The men also appeared to be much less choosy. Men tended to select nearly every woman above a certain minimum attractiveness threshold, Todd said.
Women's actual choices, like men's, did not reflect their stated preferences, but they made more discriminating choices, the researchers found.
The scientists said women were aware of the importance of their own attractiveness to men, and adjusted their expectations to select the more desirable guys.
"Women made offers to men who had overall qualities that were on a par with the women's self-rated attractiveness. They didn't greatly overshoot their attractiveness," Todd said, "because part of the goal for women is to choose men who would stay with them."
But, he added, "they didn't go lower. They knew what they could get and aimed for that level."
So, it turns out, the women's attractiveness influenced the choices of the men and the women.
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Murgos
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I tried the, "If you want to be happy the rest of your life, make an ugly woman your wife." thing (though without actually getting married). What I found was that women are women so if you have to put up with a bunch of crap that makes no sense anyway you might as well have one that's good to look at.
Choosing to date ugly women doesn't make your life any easier.
Pretty sure the reverse is true also, luckily our genitals run our lives and the human race is in no danger of dying off due to irritation with the opposite sex.
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Merusk
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Pretty women are just as bad, only they know they can replace you on a whim.
Not to mention I've yet to encounter a really good looking woman who didn't have the "Princess syndrome" in full effect.
Really, moderately attractive with a level head and some slight neuroses is the best. Just make sure you see her mom at some point. She WILL look like that in 15-20 years.
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Ironwood
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Personally, I find trawling the Psych wards until you find a Nympho best.
She's going to be mental of some flavour, it may as well be one that means you get your cock sucked lots.
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Nebu
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Study shows: Men are stupid.
Considering what we all look like in old age, marrying for looks is a pretty bad decision. Yes, I understand the competitive advantages that being attracting can give... but it's just not worth having to deal with all the other baggage in a life-long relationship. Now... if you can get Hot + smart + emotionally stable, that's the jackpot.
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Murgos
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When are these kinds of little 'LOL science sez" articles going to start linking to, or providing at least a reference for, where this information came from?
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Merusk
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About the time people start caring about science over rumor, myth and speculation. :-D
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Gutboy Barrelhouse
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Peter M. Todd, of the cognitive science program at Indiana University, Bloomington
Gets a grant to travel to Munich, hang out in restaurants with mostly attractive people and question them. Sounds like a good way to get your international vacation for free to me.
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Samwise
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The thing I like best about this study is that they stage an experiment in which people only get to know each other on a very superficial level (3 minutes of ogling and small talk), and then find that they make decisions based largely on superficial qualities. SHOCKING.
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lamaros
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To say nothing of the nature of people who consider speed dating in the first place.
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