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It's official: women want a guy who other women like

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waltappel    1

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There was a thread on it recently and we already knew it but a new study confirms it. From Reuters:

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Human attraction on second thought

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but other people's opinions matter too when it comes to the attraction between men and women, according to researchers.

They found women are more attracted to a man if other women like him too.

"We tend to think about things like attraction as reflecting a private decision or a personal choice but our work shows that people's attractiveness judgments can be influenced in pronounced ways by what other people appear to think of those individuals," said psychologist Dr. Ben Jones.

Jones, of the University of Aberdeen, and his team tested the impact of the opinions of others by giving women a test in which they had to choose the more attractive of pairs of male faces and to rate how much more handsome they found them.

They were then shown a short video in which the same faces were displayed. But each face was being looked at by a woman smiling or one showing a bored or neutral expression.

After watching the video, the researchers repeated the initial test.

"We found that the slide show caused women to become more attracted to the men who were being smiled at by other women," said Jones.

The test had the opposite effect on men however, possibly because of the competition factor amongst males.

When men were asked to look at the same male faces, those who got the approving female glances became less appealing.

"This shows that people are using cues to the attitudes of others towards individuals to shape their own attractiveness judgments of those individuals," Jones told Reuters.

The findings, which are reported in The Proceedings of The Royal Society B journal, are similar to mate-choice copying seen in other species and are thought to be the first time it has been shown in humans.

Positive female interest in the faces increased the women's preference for the males but it had the opposite effect on male judgments.

Jones suggests the positive reaction conveys a sense of approval for women but the negative male reaction could reflect jealousy or competition.

"If I go to a bar with Brad Pitt, for example, chances are I'm not going to get much interest from the women because Pitt will hog all the attention," he said.



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Dude , women buy shoes just so other women can't have them.:S



I DOUBLE DARE you to post that in the women's forum!:D:D

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DONE!!!!!..................."tastefully" with replies. :o:P
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popsjumper    2

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...Of course it works. It also goes both ways though. ;):P



That's pretty much true although I do remember this one time when I took a certain girl out and didn't want any of my buddies to find out about it...[:/]
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ryoder    1,590

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I'm hurt. I even did it tastefully.



Yeah, but you defied my warning. Try it again, I dare you. :P



You do understand that when you dare a guy, he has no option but to take the dare. To do otherwise would require him to give up his Guy Card.[:/]
"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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