10 Interesting Psychology Facts on Male Attraction
Some Male Attraction Facts
Psychology facts on male attraction
This article contains psychological information and facts
about male attraction in heterosexual relationships. Like all psychological
findings, they represent generalizations and do not reflect everyone. Different
people are attracted to different things.
Men
1. You
are more attracted to women who possess bone structure that resembles that of
your mothers.
Biology?
Sexual
imprinting is the process by which a young animal learns the characteristics of
a desirable mate. For example, male zebra finches appear to prefer mates with
the appearance of the female bird that rears them, rather than that of the
birth parent when they are different.
Ducklings imprint the first thing they see. Sigmund Freud
believes that we fall for those who resemble our parents. Is he right?
2. If
you meet a woman while in a dangerous situation, you will be more likely to
fall in love with her than if you were to meet in a mundane setting.
Biology?
Traumatic
bonding from hostage situations, or just adrenaline rushes/SNS activation
(fight or flight response) from extreme sports– it intensifies everything, even
those fuzzy feelings of attraction.
In the Capilano suspension bridge study, it was found that
those who had to cross the high and unsteady bridge were more likely to ask the
researcher confederate for her phone number than the males who walked the
steady and low bridge. Misattribution of arousal anyone?
3. You
think younger women are more attractive than older ones.
Evolution?
Human
females are only able to reproduce for a limited amount of time.
4. You
are attracted to an hourglass figure the most– slender waists between large
hips and breasts.
Evolution?
These
features correlate with reproductive ability.
5. You
are attracted to women with higher levels of oestrogen.
Evolution? This
hormone slows down bone growth in the lower face, chin, and brow– making her
shorter, smaller, and have more prominent/bigger eyes. These features help advertise reproductive
health (and femininity!)
6.
Speaking of femininity– you are more attracted to women with a more “feminine”
face.
Evolution? Small
chin, large eyes, high cheekbones, full lips– all these things indicate high
fertility, youthfulness, and reproductive fitness.
7. You
like big butts and you cannot lie.
Biology? Fat
storage in the hip/buttock area is a marker of genetic quality, as well as an
indicator for efficient metabolism and hormonal balance. Fat storage in the
abdominal/belly area, on the other hand, indicates inefficient metabolism and
hormonal processes.
8. You
find women with longer, thicker hair more attractive.
Biology?
Hair
colour, volume, and lustre are indicators of health and age. Younger women’s
hair is higher quality than older women’s hair, and with youth follow
reproductive health, high fertility, etc.
9.
Looks do matter.
Evolution? More
than 100,000 individuals from over 37 differing cultures rated physical
attractiveness in a woman as the most (or almost the most) important item on
the list of mating preferences in an experiment conducted in 2011 by
evolutionary psychologist Dr. David Buss.
Different culture have different standards of beauty, but on
average, there’s a consensus on what’s considered beautiful. Eg. face symmetry,
big eyes etc.
10.
Your sexual attraction towards women that cry often will sharply decrease over
time.
Biology?
Something
in human tears (possibly a yet to be identified human pheromone with
chemo-signaling effects) lowers levels of testosterone and sexual arousal in
men, and over time, causes males to view females as less sexually attractive
than when they are not exposed to tears.
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