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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2392781" data-attributes="member: 4720"><p>And yet, males who are guilty of "stereotypical male-bravado bullcrap" are the exact males females are more attracted to during the most fertile part of their cycle. Women are essentially bipolar when it comes to what they find attractive. Disclaimer: this is statistically speaking. There are large numbers of women who are more consistent. But on average, 3 weeks out of 4, women prefer men who have lower testosterone and men who are more genetically similar to themselves, but 1 week out of 4, they prefer high testosterone men and men that are genetically different from themselves. This is true across multiple methods of determining attractiveness.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Also, I know this appears inconsistent with my statement above that women are attracted to social status. It's like saying that men are attracted to both great smiles AND a 2:3 waist-to-hip ratio. They'll take one or the other, but prefer both.</p><p></p><p>This is increasingly off-topic, but there's an entire psychobiological literature on female mate choice and "cads" vs "dads." Interesting reading, though it often makes me a little ill. In some countries, 15% or more of births have different fathers than expected (12% in the U.S. iirc). And women are the gender that is substantially more faithful. Males who cheat are actually in the majority by most reasonable counts. Of course, we're relying at least partly on self-report for that, so it's always subject to a LARGE margin of error.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As I said in my last post, 3 is more about neural response than hormonal. 2 is the primarily hormonal point, which is, admittedly, not 100% sound.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure, but if it's still the best thing to do for others, they will do it without hesitation that a fearful (read: normal) person will have by their very nature.</p><p></p><p>Besides, rationalization of what was a good idea or not usually comes AFTER the fact. I'm increasingly in the camp that believes people usually act first and decide after. Much of our vaunted intellect and decision-making is really just making up <em>post-hoc</em> reasons for actions we've already done.</p><p></p><p>Dammit. It was less than a week ago that I swore not to bring my work into my gaming (and the boards). I am a weak, weak man.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 2392781, member: 4720"] And yet, males who are guilty of "stereotypical male-bravado bullcrap" are the exact males females are more attracted to during the most fertile part of their cycle. Women are essentially bipolar when it comes to what they find attractive. Disclaimer: this is statistically speaking. There are large numbers of women who are more consistent. But on average, 3 weeks out of 4, women prefer men who have lower testosterone and men who are more genetically similar to themselves, but 1 week out of 4, they prefer high testosterone men and men that are genetically different from themselves. This is true across multiple methods of determining attractiveness. EDIT: Also, I know this appears inconsistent with my statement above that women are attracted to social status. It's like saying that men are attracted to both great smiles AND a 2:3 waist-to-hip ratio. They'll take one or the other, but prefer both. This is increasingly off-topic, but there's an entire psychobiological literature on female mate choice and "cads" vs "dads." Interesting reading, though it often makes me a little ill. In some countries, 15% or more of births have different fathers than expected (12% in the U.S. iirc). And women are the gender that is substantially more faithful. Males who cheat are actually in the majority by most reasonable counts. Of course, we're relying at least partly on self-report for that, so it's always subject to a LARGE margin of error. As I said in my last post, 3 is more about neural response than hormonal. 2 is the primarily hormonal point, which is, admittedly, not 100% sound. Sure, but if it's still the best thing to do for others, they will do it without hesitation that a fearful (read: normal) person will have by their very nature. Besides, rationalization of what was a good idea or not usually comes AFTER the fact. I'm increasingly in the camp that believes people usually act first and decide after. Much of our vaunted intellect and decision-making is really just making up [i]post-hoc[/i] reasons for actions we've already done. Dammit. It was less than a week ago that I swore not to bring my work into my gaming (and the boards). I am a weak, weak man. [/QUOTE]
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