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This seems to go against the popular notion that men tend to value visual signals of attractiveness, whereas women tend to value non-visual signals of attractiv
by _greim_ 9y ago
This seems to go against the popular notion that men tend to value visual signals of attractiveness, whereas women tend to value non-visual signals of attractiveness.
It's been a long time since I took Psych 101. Does anyone know, has this idea ever been discredited, from a statistical standpoint?
I guess the discrepancy could also be caused by selection effects, i.e. what kind of people use Tinder, and/or what frame of mind are they in when they use it.
- pedrosorio 9y agohttp://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(17)30315-X/fulltext http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(17)30315-X/fullt...
- rflrob 9y agoThe sheer conventional-ness of that idea makes me doubt it (but I don’t know of any data one way or the other), but the article doesn’t strongly contradict or support the idea that women tend to be interested in “non-physical” attributes. There are visual signals of wealth/socio-economic status that you can send with a picture as well. All you need to posit is that there is some kind of attractiveness signaling you can do with a photo, and then the next step (not taken here) is to figure out what that is.
- pmoriarty 9y ago"Researchers at Griffith University in Queensland examined what factors most influenced female attraction to males and found that physical strength reigned supreme. "After surveying 150 women, they concluded that they could almost predict how attractive a man was based on three things: how physically strong he looks, how tall he is and how lean he is..." http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-stronger-men-attraction-looks-muscles-weak-study-dating-a8105976.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-stron...