>> Incels will overestimate women’s minimum standards for mate-preferences. They will also overemphasize the importance of physical attractiveness and financial

>> Incels will overestimate women’s minimum standards for mate-preferences. They will also overemphasize the importance of physical attractiveness and financial prospects and under emphasize the importance of kindness, intelligence, and humor > I feel like this is the most obvious answer and most in line with everyday experience. People who fall in such far end of the spectrum are highly likely to have suffered abuse in their childhood, and as a consequence, they're not able to bond romantically with the opposite sex; under this model, superficial characteristics (beauty, wealthm etc.) are not the cause, they're just the easiest rationalization that they can find.