Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Don't cha wish your girlfriend was HOT like me?

The only thing I have to say about this is:
DUHHHHH!
Men want hot women, study confirms
Story Highlights
Dating study: Men base their decisions mostly on physical attractiveness
Men are much less choosy than women
Women are aware of the importance of their own attractiveness to men


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 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

9 comments:

Dan said...

Men want hot women?? No way! They didn't interview me for this study. Had they done so, the results would have been different. Because I would have told them that I want ... um ... hot women. Oh. Never mind. My bad.

Tulip said...

And women pick men based on what?? How good looking they find themselves. Hmmmmm- vewwy vewwy intewesting.

egan said...

Miss Teen South Carolina is cute right? I don't ever want her. I happen to think when looks go south (like sagging boobs) in the late 40's... a mind is much more important.

It honestly isn't just about the looks. Ugh.

Tulip said...

"I want to be a veterinarian because I love children." You are so right Egan. Though somedays my mind sags a little too :)

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Queen of the Mayhem said...

Let's try this again!

Way to state the obvious science geeks! You only need go to a pickup bar to find this out for yourself!

I am SO glad you came back! It's been WAY too long! I promise to post something less traumatic next time.....at least, I will try! :)

Unknown said...

WHAT? Men like good looking women? What? Huh?

* Falls over dead in shock *

Actually, I'm not really dead. That was hyperbole. And sarcasm.

Tulip said...

Going to a bar would be a great case study for this however I have been told that those men get less and less picky as the clock moves closer to "last call"! and probably as their blood alcohol level get more concentrated.
Beer goggles anyone?

BillyWarhol said...

Yeah i'm afraid Sex Sells*

I'll never ferget being at a Strip Bar with a Buddy + this gorgeous stipper said take a good look cuz this is the last time U'll see these like this* Sadly she was getting a bOOb job cuz o the Pressures in da Biz*

i couldn't believe it - she was Perfect as is*

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