Does our personality affect our level of attractiveness? Yes it does.
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[b](Medical Xpress) -- Part of what determines how much success you will have in the dating world is whether you have a good sense of whether people find you attractive. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that certain personality traits contribute to being a good judge of whether someone else thinks you’re worth meeting again.
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The study is one of a series to come out of a big speed-dating experiment held in Berlin about five years ago. “Most of the prior research had worked with hypothetical scenarios, where people are asked by a questioner, ‘What kind of people would you like to get to know?’ and so on,” says Mitja Back of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, who co-wrote the new paper with Lars Penke of the University of Edinburgh, Stefan Schmukle of Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and Jens Asendorpf of Humboldt University Berlin. The problem, of course, is that what people say they like—honesty, humor, and so on—may have little to do with what they actually like—for example hotness.
In this case, Back was interested in another question: is there’s something about personality that makes some people better at predicting whether others will want to meet them? In 17 groups, a total of 190 men and 192 women met members of the opposite sex—basically the standard speed dating routine, but this time, with psychologists collecting a lot of data. Among that data was personality information and the all-important question after each three-minute date: for each person you talk to, do you want to see that person again? They were also asked if they thought the other person would want to meet them.
On the whole, people are very bad at guessing how many of the other persons will want to meet them. Some people had no clue at all. But others did better. Success was correlated with particular traits that are stereotypically associated with the sexes: Men who have a more promiscuous orientation were better at guessing if a woman would want to meet them, and women whose personality was very agreeable were better at guessing if a man would meet them.
Back thinks men who are inclined toward casual sex are displaying behavior that’s very stereotypically associated with their sex; this may in turn evoke more typical behavior in the woman they’re talking to, which could make them more accurate at predicting whether the woman will be interested. Women who are agreeable, on the other hand, might make men more comfortable and more willing to flirt—which could make it easier to judge whether the man will want to meet them again.
“Speed dating is a very good context to study dating behavior” Back says. “It’s almost like psychologists could have invented this.”
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Forever alone...I know the drill... :smith:
Isn't that like completely obvious?
Is that why I get called cute? When I'm fucking not!
Men who have lots of casual sex are good at picking up women
Wow, great study there guys
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;30088274]Isn't that like completely obvious?[/QUOTE]
As i pointed out in the other thread, you can't just assume everything completely obvious is true, because a lot of the time it isn't
[QUOTE=Icedshot;30088969]As i pointed out in the other thread, you can't just assume everything completely obvious is true, because a lot of the time it isn't[/QUOTE]
This is something we all feel many times per day. It's pretty fucking safe to say this is completely obvious.
[QUOTE=Swilly;30088331]Is that why I get called cute? When I'm fucking not![/QUOTE]
Of course, your mom loves you very much.
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Op I feel this images summarizes my thoughts of this thread. Was a thread about this really necessary?
I know people who are ugly as fuck, but have great personalities. I don't buy into this all that much. Unless it's the other way around.
[QUOTE=Roof;30089646]Of course, your mom loves you very much.[/QUOTE]
Haha, nice one. That hasn't been used over a million times.:colbert:
why do you put that aperture science thing in all your news posts stopit
Personality wise I'm a split between INFJ/INTJ, but I don't want to post a picture of myself online (that is if I haven't already, I hope not lol).
But it's interesting nonetheless.
Probably be surprised with of how someone makes an image of you with the first impression you give off, it's the make it or break it really. Doesn't even matter what you look like.
But do know you can easily flip that if you know how to get into someone's head, and if you're fast with reasoning, preferably reasonable-reasoning too.
Looks is one thing, personality is something of a whole other realm.
[QUOTE=Bletotum;30090172]why do you put that aperture science thing in all your news posts stopit[/QUOTE]
For some reason I actually enjoy it haha
in other news grass is green
I like how people always complain when a study finds the obvious. That's not the point I mean if we took everything as it was then we wouldn't find out half the things we know today. Besides Psychology and other soft sciences heavily rely on studies to back theories up.
[QUOTE=Swilly;30090056]Haha, nice one. That hasn't been used over a million times.:colbert:[/QUOTE]
It doesn't matter how many times it's used, as long as it's used correctly.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;30099900]I like how people always complain when a study finds the obvious. That's not the point I mean if we took everything as it was then we wouldn't find out half the things we know today. Besides Psychology and other soft sciences heavily rely on studies to back theories up.[/QUOTE]
but do we need a news article to tell us what we already thought was true really is true?
its only really newsworthy if it was the opposite
I would rather date a nice kinda normal looking girl than a batshit crazy supermodel.
Isnt that just called Charisma?
[QUOTE=VagueWisdom;30089924]I know people who are ugly as fuck, but have great personalities. I don't buy into this all that much. Unless it's the other way around.[/QUOTE]
Surprisingly, I only see the opposite of that.
Most pretty assholes around here get all the girls. Reason being because their pretty and they cheat and dump them faster then lightning.
We already knew this.
[QUOTE=dass;30107919]Surprisingly, I only see the opposite of that.
Most pretty assholes around here get all the girls. Reason being because their pretty and they cheat and dump them faster then lightning.
We already knew this.[/QUOTE]
actually pretty assholes possess many of the personality characteristics that most women find attractive
[QUOTE=dass;30107919]Surprisingly, I only see the opposite of that.
Most pretty assholes around here get all the girls. Reason being because their pretty and they cheat and dump them faster then lightning.
We already knew this.[/QUOTE]
They like those kind of guys because they are confident.
Exactly
Thus as it always has been abundantly obvious, if you're confident then you're jamming.
[QUOTE=Van-man;30101444]It doesn't matter how many times it's used, as long as it's used correctly.[/QUOTE]
yeah but its rarely used correctly, especially here where its said almost every other post. Not to mention along side every other joke about facepunchers.
[QUOTE=Swilly;30088331]Is that why I get called cute? When I'm fucking not![/QUOTE]
thinly veiled attempt at gaining attention for a lack of self esteem
[QUOTE=Swilly;30130025]yeah but its rarely used correctly, especially here where its said almost every other post. Not to mention along side every other joke about facepunchers.[/QUOTE]
Someone made a joke about you.
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