zarathustra
Don Juan
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2008
- Messages
- 18
- Reaction score
- 0
Found this article today and just had to post it. Below you men will find yet another way women find to rationalize irrational behavior....
Some key points in the study the article references: 1) women don't like men who smile, 2) women like nice guys, 3) women like guys who are "brooding."
Guys who have been in the field for several months know this is bull. You newer studs may not. The field does not lie!
This just goes to emphasize the point (yet again) that females will attempt to divert males with misinformation, disinformation and falsehoods to weed out weak mates. Even during the course of a scientific study.
Brooding men, smiling women seen as sexy?
By Allan Dowd Allan Dowd – Wed May 25, 12:48 pm ET
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Guys, want to look sexy and get the girl? Don't smile too much. Look brooding or show a bit of shame instead. Women, ignore that advice.
Women find happy men less sexually attractive than those with expressions that show pride or hint that they have done wrong and know it, according to Canadian researchers.
The study published online Tuesday in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion showed pictures of the opposite sex to both men and women. Participants were then asked for their initial reactions on sexual attractiveness based the expressions they saw.
"Men who smile were considered fairly unattractive by women," said Jessica Tracy, a University of British Columbia psychology professor who directed the study.
"So to the extent that men think that smiling is a good thing to do if they want to be found sexually attractive our findings suggest that's not the case," Tracy said.
The men's reaction was just the opposite.
"Women who smile are absolutely very attractive. That was by far the most attractive expression women showed," Tracy said in an interview.
The researchers admit they are not sure why men and women reacted differently to smiles. In a man, a big smile may make him appear too feminine or more desperate for sex.
The study also adds fuel to the notion that women are attracted to bad boys.
"Women are attracted to guys like James Dean, Edward the vampire. The guys who are flawed, but who know it and are tortured by it," Tracy said.
A slightly downcast expression of shame is an appeasement gesture that hints at a need for sympathy.
Men also found sexual attractiveness in women whose expressions and body language hinted at shame.
The researchers stressed they looked only at initial reactions of sexual attractiveness, and were not recommending men adopt a no-smile policy for a long-term relationship.
"When people want a long-term relationship they take much more into account than sexual attractiveness. How nice a person is, is a big thing," Tracy said.
"So we're not saying, don't be a nice guy," she said.
(Reporting Allan Dowd; editing by Rob Wilson)
Some key points in the study the article references: 1) women don't like men who smile, 2) women like nice guys, 3) women like guys who are "brooding."
Guys who have been in the field for several months know this is bull. You newer studs may not. The field does not lie!
This just goes to emphasize the point (yet again) that females will attempt to divert males with misinformation, disinformation and falsehoods to weed out weak mates. Even during the course of a scientific study.
Brooding men, smiling women seen as sexy?
By Allan Dowd Allan Dowd – Wed May 25, 12:48 pm ET
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Guys, want to look sexy and get the girl? Don't smile too much. Look brooding or show a bit of shame instead. Women, ignore that advice.
Women find happy men less sexually attractive than those with expressions that show pride or hint that they have done wrong and know it, according to Canadian researchers.
The study published online Tuesday in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion showed pictures of the opposite sex to both men and women. Participants were then asked for their initial reactions on sexual attractiveness based the expressions they saw.
"Men who smile were considered fairly unattractive by women," said Jessica Tracy, a University of British Columbia psychology professor who directed the study.
"So to the extent that men think that smiling is a good thing to do if they want to be found sexually attractive our findings suggest that's not the case," Tracy said.
The men's reaction was just the opposite.
"Women who smile are absolutely very attractive. That was by far the most attractive expression women showed," Tracy said in an interview.
The researchers admit they are not sure why men and women reacted differently to smiles. In a man, a big smile may make him appear too feminine or more desperate for sex.
The study also adds fuel to the notion that women are attracted to bad boys.
"Women are attracted to guys like James Dean, Edward the vampire. The guys who are flawed, but who know it and are tortured by it," Tracy said.
A slightly downcast expression of shame is an appeasement gesture that hints at a need for sympathy.
Men also found sexual attractiveness in women whose expressions and body language hinted at shame.
The researchers stressed they looked only at initial reactions of sexual attractiveness, and were not recommending men adopt a no-smile policy for a long-term relationship.
"When people want a long-term relationship they take much more into account than sexual attractiveness. How nice a person is, is a big thing," Tracy said.
"So we're not saying, don't be a nice guy," she said.
(Reporting Allan Dowd; editing by Rob Wilson)
