Women Shun 'The Man Who Has It All'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-9-2007 | Roger Highfield

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Women shun 'the man who has it all'

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 1:23am GMT 09/02/2007

Some men are just too good to be true, according to a study published today by psychologists.

Men who are good-looking, single, and earn a fortune are not as attractive as good-looking men who have an average kind of job, according to the research.

Simon Chu of the University of Central Lancashire and colleagues studied how women weigh up male physical attractiveness and socio-economic status when considering a long-term relationship.

They collected data from 186 female university students in the UK, with an average age of 23, asking them to look at personal ads of various men and rank them in terms of attractiveness as a long-term partner. Each advertisement showed a "mug shot" and provided basic information about his age, occupation and what he is seeking in a partner.

Images of the men ranged from those who were previously measured to be highly attractive, attractive and unattractive. Eighteen different occupations were also randomly assigned, from architect and company director to waiter, postman and gardener.

Surprisingly, researchers found that highly attractive men of medium status scored better than highly attractive men of high status.

The team, whose work is published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, speculates that women perceive highly attractive men of increasing status to be less faithful and "too good to be true".

[OwenKellogg]

"Yum yum! chocolate almond, mmmmmm!"

My favorite! But I had to give them up about 5 months ago when the Doc told my I'm diabetic.

[Shooter 2.5]

That's great. Maybe I should make up business cards. LOL

[Defiant]

Here's the real answer. Good women want good men, no matter the $$ involved.

Sounds like you have issues with the study, not with me. You see, the study concluded that women prefer the male who has LESS money, not who is less "good". As for me, I live in the wealthiest community in America, and have a great wife. However, when she married me, I was just starting out, so maybe there is something to this.

[NYpeanut]

So your wife, when you were starting out, wanted to control you? No issues here, just responding to your response. That's what we do here.

Pardon me if I was snippy. I inferred that you said women who married good looking not-rich guys wanted to control them. I guess you meant something else.

By the scenario I thought you were describing, women who married poor guys would be control freaks, and women who married rich guys would be golddiggers. Not much wiggle room.

[Defiant]

I'm saying my wife is exceptional. This study, like all such studies of human behavior, takes aggregate data and tries to come up with conclusions. The tendencies don't necessarily apply to each and every human being.

I don't mind you being snippy, I guess you just wanted to control what I say. Hehehe.

[lesser_satan]

I call BS. You could be an 5'2", 300lb., axe-murdering mutant with bad hair, chronic halitosis, and a micro-penis. But if you have enough money, 10's will flock to you like drunks to a karaoke mic.