From: Discovery News
Men Think They’re Hot — And It Works
Discovery News:
It’s a classic tale of unrequited love: Boy meets Girl. Boy likes Girl. Girl is not really that into Boy. Totally failing to take the hint, Boy pursues Girl anyway.
The storyline is common, and not just in Hollywood romance films. A new study found that men tend to overestimate how attractive they are to women, while women most often underestimate how much men want them.
While the outcome of these scenarios can go either way, researchers suspect that there may be deeply rooted reasons why signals get crossed when men and women check each other out. The findings may offer insight for women who are sick of unwanted advances and advice for men who are repeatedly confused by women’s reactions to their solicitations.
“Throughout history, men have had to make this decision,” said Carin Perilloux, a psychologist at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. “Is this individual sexually interested in me or not?”
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I do not think that Peter Todd’s explanations are correct. It is probable that the man feels his own attractiveness by emotions the woman provokes in him. And a very pretty girl provokes stronger good emotions than an ugly girl. In reality the man just extrapolates his own emotions to the woman. It is also possible that hotter guys are not more clever than any other guy. I think that men have no idea if a woman is interested in them or not. And the hotter guy is just wrong less often because he is just hotter than others.
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