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According to strategic pluralism theory, men may have correspondingly evolved to pursue reproductive strategies that are contingent on their own physical attractiveness. More physically attractive men accrue reproductive benefits from spending more time seeking multiple mating partners and relatively less time investing in offspring.
[20] [21] Conversely, research by Dan Ariely found that American women exhibit a marked preference for dating taller men, and that for shorter men to be judged attractive by women, they must earn substantially more money than taller men. [22] Also, the perceived attractiveness of taller men may also apply to men of average height.
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.
According to sociologists at NYU, tall men marry tend to marry older, wealthier women -- and those marriages also tend to end in divorce more often. On the flip side, shorter men are more likely ...
Now, keep in mind men, physical traits are by no means the most important factor for women when choosing a mate. ... Here are the most attractive cities in the United States: More from AOL.com ...
Scores of psychological studies suggest that, for guys, attractiveness isn't just about the way you look.
David Puts is an associate professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the evolutionary bases of human sexuality.In 2017 he was asked if "tall, dark and handsome" is universally attractive in the human experience and he stated that not enough cross-cultural work had been conducted to be very confident in the concept's scientific validity.
On this (latter) metric, the most attractive ratio of leg to body for men (as seen by American women) is 1:1, [12] matching the 'four heads:four heads' ratio above. A Japanese study using the former metric found the same result for male attractiveness but women with longer legs than body were judged to be more attractive. [13]