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Men selectively attend to attractive people more than women, it has been suggested that this could be because men are less invested in their offspring, so they are less choosy when it comes to sexual partners, and therefore they are more easily attracted. As a result of selective attention, people end up giving a group rating which is biased as ...
But, we digress. According to Business Insider, these are the physical traits that women find most attractive: - Muscles - Significant beard stubble - Men who wear the color red - Symmetrical features
Women, especially when not using hormonal contraceptives, are more attracted to the scent of men heterozygous for HLA. Androstenone, from stale male sweat, is unattractive. However, the same attraction and mate preferences are not held by men for heterozygous women. Men are, however, more attracted to the scent of women with rare HLA alleles. [40]
This ties in with the idea that women discriminate between men on hypothesized fitness cues. The more physically attractive a man is, the higher his fitness, and the "better" his genes will be. Women are attracted to masculine traits greater in sexual dimorphism (e.g. strong jawline, a more muscular body, a taller height).
Dating preferences refers to the preferences that individuals have towards a potential partner when approaching the formation of a romantic relationship. This concept is related to mate choice in humans, the research literature there primarily discusses the preference for traits that are evolutionarily desirable, such as physical symmetry, waist-to-chest ratio, and waist-to-hip ratio.
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The physical attractiveness stereotype was first formally observed in a study done by Karen Dion, Ellen Berscheid, and Elaine Walster in 1972. [1] The goal of this study was to determine whether physical attractiveness affected how individuals were perceived, specifically whether they were perceived to have more socially desirable personality traits and quality of life.
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