Men Prefer Dumb And Unreflective Women, Study Says
In recent decades, different studies have been carried out to find out what is most attractive to a man, and what he looks for in a woman. And just as some men may wonder, how can it be that women are attracted to tough guys? They, surely, wonder, how can it be that there are men who overlook intelligence and only focus on physical appearance? ?
A study carried out by the University of Texas It seems to indicate that men are attracted to women who are not very reflective and mentally vulnerable That is to say, they don’t exactly like philosophers or great thinkers, but rather the opposite.
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The study was carried out by researchers at California Lutheran University and the University of Texas, and seems to indicate that Men are intimidated by intelligent women and that they have a special predilection for women who are not very thoughtful and rather foolish or stupid. Could this indicate that less thoughtful women are easier to cajole into bed? Or is it rather a predilection to continue being the “roosters” of the pen? The hypotheses are in the air.
To arrive at these results, the researchers asked a large group of students about which actions, body postures, attitudes or personality traits were most attractive (for example, biting their lips, touching their hair, etc.), and They then extracted 88 factors that they used as part of their study, which consisted of showing a series of photographs with these traits to 76 men. They were then asked what behaviors they associated with these and what desires they aroused in them. Men associated female attractiveness with signs of vulnerability and low intelligence
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This study goes against the sapiosexual trend
Recently, in an article by Psychology and Mind , we talk about “sapiosexuality”. The sapiosexuals They are people who are attracted to the intelligence of individuals of the opposite sex According to the data from this study, in the case of men, sapiosexuality would not exactly be a characteristic to take into account when flirting.
In fact, according to sexologist Miren Larrazábal, president of the Spanish Federation of Sexology Societies (FESS), “as for women, as far as attraction is concerned, apart from physical appearance, we highly value intelligence.” Furthermore, Larrazábal concludes, “this does not mean that men are not attracted to a woman’s intelligence, but they tend to pay attention to other things.” Well, it seems that Dr. Larrazábal was pointing in the right direction: Men do not value the intelligence of their potential partners too much
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3 out of 4 women are lesbians, according to another study
And of course, the data from this study can be very frustrating for some women, especially those who use their intelligence as a weapon of seduction. Fortunately, Other research will still have to be carried out to know if these conclusions are replicable If new research corroborates these results, no one would be surprised by the results of other research that states that 3 out of 4 women are lesbians.
You can learn more about this controversial study that was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by clicking here.
At what age do women stop being attractive to men?
And surely some women think that no one understands men. This idea becomes stronger when one takes a look at other controversial research that concludes that Women over 28 years old are no longer attractive to men These results are aligned with the idea that the older a man gets, the more he likes younger women.
Finnish researchers from Åbo Akademi University carried out this research with more than 12,000 participants between 25 and 40 years of age. So the sample is quite large.
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Men also like smiling women
But, What other characteristics do women have that are attractive to men?
This question was asked by a group of researchers from the University of British Columbia (United States) in a study led by Jessica Tracy, professor and director of the same university. The results were published in American Psychological Association Journaland showed that, for men, women who smile more are very attractive
However, in the case of women, the results were quite the opposite. “The men who are considered most attractive to them are those who show a more serious feature and smile less.” Thus, there is a notable difference between men and women in this matter: they prefer smiling ones, and they pine for serious and thoughtful ones. Curious.
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