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Men ‘overestimate’ attractiveness of women – study.

https://www.rt.com/news/545310-men-overestimate-attractiveness-women-study/

6 Jan, 2022 15:11

New research on desirability and gender suggests that the old trope about ‘love at first sight’ holds true only for men.

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Men tend to overestimate a woman's attractiveness. © Getty Images / Tomas Rodriguez

Researchers have found that men tend to overestimate how attractive a woman is based on just a brief glimpse, whereas women who catch a glance of a man are more likely to underestimate his handsomeness.

The findings, published last month in the Evolution and Human Behavior journal, suggests the cliche about ‘falling in love at first sight’ only goes one way. The study appears to confirm the concept of ‘first-impression bias’ in both men and women.

Conducted in Australia, researchers asked around 400 volunteers to evaluate the attractiveness of strangers from the opposite sex based on a blurry photo without a clear view of their facial features, and then again from a clear image.

The researchers also randomized the order of presentation, switching between first showing participants a blurry image or a clear image. Through this method, they were apparently able to “isolate the unique effects of uncertainty” – which was only identified when volunteers saw the blurred images first. 

“When people have only incomplete information about a potential partner, they must make inferences about their desirability, leading to possible errors in judgment,” the researchers noted.

The study looked at how people “balance the risks” of these errors of misjudgment, and the differences between how men and women respond to this uncertainty.

The potential risks were described as either engaging in “regrettable mating behavior” when overestimating desirability, or “missing a valuable opportunity” when under-perceiving attractiveness.

The results showed that men, on average, give women the benefit of the doubt when it comes to judging attractiveness, while the opposite held true when the roles were reversed.

Further analysis suggested “more nuanced biases” in that men appeared to specifically overestimate the attractiveness of unattractive (but not attractive) women, while women exhibited a bias against attractive (but not unattractive) men.

While noting that this was an “important finding,” the team said these were “broad quantitative effects” that needed to be studied further to understand why “first-impression bias” existed to begin with. They also highlighted the importance of conducting algorithm-based studies into cognitive biases.

The study noted that earlier research on perception bias, including examinations of men overestimating how interested a woman was in them sexually, had emphasized “between-sex” differences.

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You mean men are fooled by women's false attractiveness, the hair, makeup, dress, pushup bra, girdle pants, fake eyelashes, botox lips, silicone breasts, butt fillers...

 

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Women does makeup on what and how thy like to portray themselves for themselves only, instead thy don't really know what her man likes & how he wants her to present proper . . . In office work social gathering or evening dinner, men has different wish list.😋

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covid period most ah soh appeared to be chiobus 

 

sibay swee until mask off for makan 

 

thats why I dabao only 

 

first impression lasted 

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Ya man. Especially with the videos of how some women are totally transformed with make up. Once the make up is off…. 🤮….. 😂

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2 hours ago, DOBIEMKZ said:

Men ‘overestimate’ attractiveness of women – study.

https://www.rt.com/news/545310-men-overestimate-attractiveness-women-study/

6 Jan, 2022 15:11

New research on desirability and gender suggests that the old trope about ‘love at first sight’ holds true only for men.

image.thumb.png.fe8eb845411e2876475cab04e782a7cf.png

Men tend to overestimate a woman's attractiveness. © Getty Images / Tomas Rodriguez

Researchers have found that men tend to overestimate how attractive a woman is based on just a brief glimpse, whereas women who catch a glance of a man are more likely to underestimate his handsomeness.

The findings, published last month in the Evolution and Human Behavior journal, suggests the cliche about ‘falling in love at first sight’ only goes one way. The study appears to confirm the concept of ‘first-impression bias’ in both men and women.

Conducted in Australia, researchers asked around 400 volunteers to evaluate the attractiveness of strangers from the opposite sex based on a blurry photo without a clear view of their facial features, and then again from a clear image.

The researchers also randomized the order of presentation, switching between first showing participants a blurry image or a clear image. Through this method, they were apparently able to “isolate the unique effects of uncertainty” – which was only identified when volunteers saw the blurred images first. 

“When people have only incomplete information about a potential partner, they must make inferences about their desirability, leading to possible errors in judgment,” the researchers noted.

The study looked at how people “balance the risks” of these errors of misjudgment, and the differences between how men and women respond to this uncertainty.

The potential risks were described as either engaging in “regrettable mating behavior” when overestimating desirability, or “missing a valuable opportunity” when under-perceiving attractiveness.

The results showed that men, on average, give women the benefit of the doubt when it comes to judging attractiveness, while the opposite held true when the roles were reversed.

Further analysis suggested “more nuanced biases” in that men appeared to specifically overestimate the attractiveness of unattractive (but not attractive) women, while women exhibited a bias against attractive (but not unattractive) men.

While noting that this was an “important finding,” the team said these were “broad quantitative effects” that needed to be studied further to understand why “first-impression bias” existed to begin with. They also highlighted the importance of conducting algorithm-based studies into cognitive biases.

The study noted that earlier research on perception bias, including examinations of men overestimating how interested a woman was in them sexually, had emphasized “between-sex” differences.

This you have to ask those in Tiko Rangers!🤐

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Women also overestimated attractiveness of men. They see your wallet damn thick, but actually it's just stuffed with unwanted petrol receipts and other thrash 😂

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43 minutes ago, Jamesc said:

I have been fooled by high heels once.

:D

I've been fooled numerous times by lacy underwear.[:(]

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1 hour ago, Lethalstrike said:

Women also overestimated attractiveness of men. They see your wallet damn thick, but actually it's just stuffed with unwanted petrol receipts and other thrash 😂

The same can be said for key fob. No wonder entry level Audi, BMW and Mercedes are flying off the shelves... 

If bus and truck drivers are allowed to wear business suit to work, I bet those decent looking drivers will attract lot of attention from ladies when they put their bus/truck keys on the table, even at Kopitiam... :D

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