Mark Wieczorek

Since I’m devilishly handsome and there’s nothing I can do about that, my usual pickup line of “Wanna see my yacht” may actually backfire long-term since it turns out that women don’t think men who are both handsome and rich are good husband material. Go figure.

We asked females to rate a number of different males in terms of attractiveness as a long-term partner. Females were presented with attractive, average and unattractive male faces paired with lonely-hearts advertisements implying high, medium or low socio-economic status. Highest ratings were consistently given to attractive males of medium status rather than high status. We suggest that females see physically attractive, high status males as being more likely to pursue a mating strategy rather than parenting strategy. Under particular circumstances, high socio-economic status in males can be subtly counter-productive in terms of attractiveness as a long-term partner.

read: Too good to be ‘true’? The handicap of high socio-economic status in attractive males (via BPS Research Digest)

(Perhaps someone needs to tell this short film maker. And these Lesbians.)

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