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Study finds unattractive men most likely to incorrectly think women really dig ‘em

Scientists may have just found an evolutionary answer for why that idiot keeps hanging all over you at the bar without taking the hint that you’re just not that into him.

(You know the one… the one who continues to wink at you, or offer to buy you a drink, and you’re forced to make out with your husband on the spot in the hopes he’ll eventually leave you alone.)

Turns out unattractive men who are looking for a quick hookup, are more likely to overestimate how attractive women find them.

Researchers from Williams College and University of Texas at Austin took 96 men and 103 women, all undergraduates, and put them through a “speed date” type scenario. The men and women first took surveys rating themselves on attractiveness and their level of desire for a short-term sexual encounter. They then talked with five members of the opposite sex for about three minutes each. After the meeting they rated the partners on physical attractiveness and how interested in them sexually the partner appeared to be. The study will be published in the journal Psychological Science.

Researchers found men who were looking for a short-term sexual encounter were more likely to overestimate a woman’s desire for them. Men who thought they were hot also overestimated women’s desire for them. Furthermore, the more attractive the woman was to the man, the more likely he was to overestimate his desire in her.

Men who were actually considered attractive by the women’s rankings did not seem to have this discrepancy in evaluating the situation. Women, for the record, consistently underestimated their male partners’ interest in them sexually.

Researchers say there’s an evolutionary explanation for this discrepancy.

“There are two ways you can make an error as a man,” psychologist Carin Perilloux said. “Either you think, ‘Oh, wow, that woman’s really interested in me’—and it turns out she’s not. There’s some cost to that. “

But the other error a man could make is that the woman is interested and he’s missed out on a mating opportunity.

“That’s a huge cost in terms of reproductive success,” Perilloux said.

For men who are looking for casual sex, they’re only limited by the number of women they can get to have sex with them, so overestimation also makes sense in that situation, he added.

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Lads' mags 'use same language as sex offenders'





‘Sexist’ lads’ mags are changing the way young men think about women. A recent study showed magazines such as FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo described women in the same ‘hateful’ way as do sex offenders – and many readers could identify with it.

As part of the study, researchers interviewed a number of men aged 18 to 46. They were given quotes from leading lads’ mags as well as quotes taken from interviews with rapists.

When asked which ones they agreed with more, the men pointed to the rapists’ quotes, even when they were misled and told the words had been taken from magazines.

A separate group – women – agreed that today’s lads’ mags were ‘derogatory and demeaning’.


Psychologists said there was ‘clearly something wrong’ with the way women were being sexualised by the media.

Dr Peter Hegarty, from the University of Surrey, said: ‘There is concern that such magazines normalise the treatment of women as sexual objects. ‘Are young men best prepared for fulfilling love and sex when they normalise views about women that are disturbingly close to those mirrored in the language of sexual offenders?’

And Anna van Heeswijk from Object – a group that campaigns against the objectification of women – said: ‘When the content of magazines aimed at teenage boys mirrors the attitudes of convicted rapists, alarm bells must ring.’


Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/884549-lads-mags-use-same-language-as-sex-offenders#ixzz1gclXc4dd



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if you do click this^ blue link, please notice all the pix in the column on the left-hand side featuring hot half-clad women you'd never in a million years have a chance to meet...

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euro mags are so much better than ours.  they show da boobies and partial nudity, where ours shows crap

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I live in the middle of a very very small seriously overcrowded island, we were once a big pink mass across the world map, once an empire.

A country in which they find it appropriate to have page 3 girls in a newspaper?  I scream when I see children attempting to read or understand or appreciate the news.  

I feel like spitting or gagging when I see a truly sad 18-year-old girl with joke fake tits on page 3.




I don't endorse or enjoy partial porn in newspapers, nor on telly when they're all half naked doing a pop song.  It's too wrong.


Or maybe I'm getting too old and still desperately grasp onto the last shreds of morality.


they invented the interweb in order that men may toss off and to allow women to lust



Madonna was funny in the 80's.  I'm just surprised that none of them lately can acknowledge that it's just no longer appropriate or acceptable.



I'm so glad I decided not to have children.
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ooops I'd forgotten this thread is about unattractive men.



I wascreaming at the telly.


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I can't believe that someone actually financed a "study" to "verify" what simple observation makes obvious.

Every office has that one guy whose build resembles a Hershey Kiss, has a grand total of three greasy strands of hair that he tries to comb over his enormous cranium, and emits a body odor which interferes with radio signals, yet considers himself borderline Brad Pitt in terms of attractiveness. 

And before any of you knuckleheads asks, NO I AM NOT THAT GUY IN MY OFFICE    >:(
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i'm an ugly SOB and i've never thought that

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i'm an ugly SOB and i've never thought that

I can't believe that someone actually financed a "study" to "verify" what simple observation makes obvious.

Every office has that one guy whose build resembles a Hershey Kiss, has a grand total of three greasy strands of hair that he tries to comb over his enormous cranium, and emits a body odor which interferes with radio signals, yet considers himself borderline Brad Pitt in terms of attractiveness.  

And before any of you knuckleheads asks, NO I AM NOT THAT GUY IN MY OFFICE    >:(


I'd never thought that either, but I've only ever had to fend off the totally gorgeous 6' tall fit men.  

The funny sad shy ones I've always been ever so very nice to and have had big laughs with.

xL

I've never met a man who pretends to think he looks like Brad Pitt.  But I don't think Brad Pitt is extremely good looking.  I'd have turned him down.


I was rude to Mel Gibson when he was coming on to me.  That was in the 80s when he was hot as hell.  I was a teenager and I knew he was married and was just having a nice night out and taking the piss and spending thousands of dollars being Mr big shot...

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I'd never thought that either, but I've only ever had to fend off the totally gorgeous 6' tall fit men.  

The funny sad shy ones I've always been ever so very nice too and have had big laughs with.

xL

Having been married for almost 20 years, I wouldn't know how to act if I found myself suddenly unattached.   :-\
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And before any of you knuckleheads asks, NO I AM NOT THAT GUY IN MY OFFICE    >:(

 ;D

i'm an ugly SOB and i've never thought that

 ::)  Please.   Even chaos calls you a cutie patootie :)
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naw i'm short, fat, bald, blind.  I'm a cross between a koala, sloth and a mole.

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naw i'm short, fat, bald, blind.  I'm a cross between a koala, sloth and a mole.

 :'(

i see no problems here 8)

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