The key to falling in love: Men seek beauty, women seek cash

[Daanyeer]

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk/
September 4, 2007 Author: ARTHUR MARTIN


Being soul mates has often been considered the benchmark for any budding relationship.



In fact, looking for love is a much simpler process.

New scientific research has reached the conclusion which many of us have long suspected - that men are attracted by beauty while women focus on a partner's wealth.


Data taken from a speed-dating study reveals that when it comes to the rules of attraction people behave like stereotypical Neanderthals.


It found that men would try to entice the most attractive woman they met, although they accepted they would make do with someone who falls somewhat short of their dream.


Meanwhile women will try and find a man whose wealth is on the same level as their own perceived attractiveness.

This is the conclusion of research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a group of scientist from different universities across the globe.


One those is Peter Todd, of Indiana University, who said the problem with earlier work that suggested that likes attract was that the scientists had simply asked people about preferences.


After the speeding dating sessions, during which each potential pair met briefly and recorded their interest in dating one another again, the researchers compared what they said they were looking for with what they actually did.


In their own assessments, subjects claimed their ideal mate would be similar to themselves. However, in the dating sessions involving 46 people in Munich, men went for looks while women went for money.

"We found that what men and women say they want is not the same as what they actually choose," Mr Todd said.

"The actual choices made by men and women accord with a rough evolutionary-predicted trade-off, in this case between men's overall mate value and women's self-perceived attractiveness.


He said women dominate this trade-off because "men are much less discriminating".

Mr Todd added: "Ancestral individuals who made their mate choices in this way - women trading off their attractiveness for higher quality men and men looking for any attractive women who would accept them - would have had an evolutionary advantage in greater numbers of successful offspring."

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"Meanwhile women will try and find a man whose wealth is on the same level as their own perceived attractiveness. "


Meaning of course as long as you are super wealthy-- you tend to be less ugly with every master card you whip out. I concur.


Ameen to that ~~!