Posted on 04/05/2006 10:11:16 AM PDT by iPod Shuffle
What women look for in a man
Wed Apr 5, 2006 4:47 PM BST164
LONDON (Reuters) - The old adage that women look for wealth in a man appears to be under threat after research on Wednesday showed women are starting to put physical attractiveness above solvency.
The shift is occurring because women have been freed from the constraints that previously dictated how they chose a mate as they increasingly control their own finances, the study said.
"We are seeing that women who have control over their finances are less concerned with the fiscal status of their potential mates and look more as to how attractive they may be," said one of the authors, Fhionna Moore from University of St Andrews.
The findings, to be published in Evolution and Human Behaviour journal, showed, however, that women who had low levels of financial independence still tended to rate a man's fiscal status above attractiveness.
Moore, a research student, found that as a woman's level of "resource control" changed, so did her preferences.
"It is the control and the independence the money gives rather than the absolute income level that appears to be the key predicting variable," she told Reuters.
An analysis of questionnaires returned by 1,851 heterosexual women aged between 18 and 35 showed women were able to change their attitudes relatively quickly in reaction to their changed financial status.
"We seem capable of changing our preferences in quite a short time which suggest environmental factors rather than inherent traits had a big impact in choice," she said.
"Women are quicker at adapting behaviour than previously thought," added Moore who is attached to the University's psychology department.
ROTFLMAO! I gotta get me one of those!
He needs to be able to find them without help.
Still you cannot say that all women go for MONEY first.
I like it.
*SMACK*
There was a spider on the wall...
That would be good. I'm not medically-inclined :-).
LOL!
No....hopefully he's a good ole boy living in the US.
Just don't mess with my tools and we'll get along fine.
Gold diggers?
Seems to me someone is shoveling sh**.... ;)
That's not the way I heard it.
They're in the change jar, under the dirty socks.
Thank you!
I showered with an 8-legged friend last night. Nothing like turning around, shampoo in your hair - and seeing a critter in with you!
I am SO not a nurse. I had to deal with a bloody bird this weekend and I nearly lost my cookies.
Tough noogies if you're human.
I could have taken care of that for you as well...
;-)
Ditto. Especially if the bug in question looks like this:
That's where I found my Dad's hearing aids! (I thought he was ignoring me - turns out he was deaf!)
I totally agree. Spider killer is key. I hate those things.
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