Male happiness is unattractive

completedit

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21604870/

The present research is the first to demonstrate that distinct emotion expressions have distinct, gender-specific effects on sexual attractiveness, which largely hold across age. Men are made most attractive by displaying pride and least attractive by displaying happiness, whereas women are made most attractive by displaying happiness and least attractive by displaying pride. Shame expressions increase the attractiveness of both men and women, compared to neutral, and, at least among younger women viewers, male shame tends to be more attractive than male happiness.

Women really have strange preferences tbh

Pac1Man

Go outside.

Well they're wrong.

At a basic level...women are attracted to men displaying strength but also vulnerability.

Men are attracted to women displaying strength but also vulnerability.

These are misenterpreted through expressions.

Yurt2

Olivia2 wrote: »

Well they're wrong.

At a basic level...women are attracted to men displaying strength but also vulnerability.

Men are attracted to women displaying strength but also vulnerability an incredible rack.

These are misenterpreted through expressions.

Fixed that for you.

Leg End Reject

completedit wrote: »

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21604870/



Women really have strange preferences tbh

And you have very strange views on the dynamics of interpersonal interactions and relationships.

BrianD3

A proud, macho, vaguely angry look is definitely a good one for males. Men know this hence the reluctance to smile in photographs as you risk looking like a village idiot or "harmless", one of the worst looks that a man can have.

Surprising that a look of shame is good though. My idea of a look of shame is nearly the exact opposite of a proud look - staring at the floor or looking around nervously.

Yurt!

Yurt! wrote: »

Fixed that for you.

That's biological not emotional but also a bit emotional. It's very complex

dd973

Had some Cardboard Gangster and small time Drug Dealer living near me, thankfully he's f**ked off now, was couped up with his missus and two small kids, never saw him laugh or smile once in over three years, the demeanour always looked so put on as well, thought what do women see in a c**t like that and how does he keep that up all the time? I'd get fed up of it.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Norks

everyone is nicer looking when they smile....their faces light up

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

everyone is nicer looking when they smile....their faces light up

Not true...really. If youre too happy ..people walk all over you.

Was once told I was too kind!

Yurt2

Olivia2 wrote: »

That's biological not emotional but also a bit emotional. It's very complex

Most men are hound dogs, and when they're speaking to a woman with a strong set of headlamps, they're not looking at her face trying to detect strength, vulnerability or their opinions on the Middle East conflict for that matter, trust me!

El_Duderino 09

Why does it always seem that the ones who have the strongest opinions and kookiest theories on what women want, are also the ones who can't come within an ass's roar of a stable, happy, mutually beneficial relationship?

Leg End Reject

Olivia2 wrote: »

Not true...really. If youre too happy ..people walk all over you.

Was once told I was too kind!

Happy and being too kind are completely different things.

The former reflects inner peace and confidence, the latter a desire to please others at all costs.

85603

3rd world pussy.

Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Happy and being too kind are completely different things.

The former reflects inner peace and confidence, the latter a desire to please others at all costs.

Nope I just chose the words 'too kind' as opposed to too happy . I have inner peace and confidence. Sometimes I see lack of confidence in others and downplay my own confidence so as not to seem too proud because I don't want to make them feel uncomfortable

Notmything

#disappointed

Thought mr fegs was back when I saw the thread title.

Yurt2

Happy people, particularly happy males, are regarded as dumb in Russia.

Kind of like James Corden - constantly gurning and jocular like a corpulent clown but without the makeup. I just want to duff him in the face.

notAMember

How does this wishy washy subjective opinion poll “research” get published as science?

RobertKK

Some find a big wallet attractive and display it with happiness as they think of ways of spending.
That is before we get onto food, no one is happy with an empty stomach and aubergines and big sausages, that makes some happy too.

Yurt!

Yurt! wrote: »

Most men are hound dogs, and when they're speaking to a woman with a strong set of headlamps, they're not looking at her face trying to detect strength, vulnerability or their opinions on the Middle East conflict for that matter, trust me!

So they should get a sex doll if there's absolutely no emotional motive.

Is ego part of emotion?

RobertKK

RobertKK wrote: »

Some find a big wallet attractive and display it with happiness as they think of ways of spending.

They would find strength attractive if they found his 'big wallet' attractive otherwise they would just be faking it.

Olivia2

Olivia2 wrote: »

Not true...really. If youre too happy ..people walk all over you.

Was once told I was too kind!

You still might look very good when you smile, though.


Just maybe not to the people involved in this particular survey...

Yurt2

Olivia2 wrote: »

So they should get a sex doll if there's absolutely no emotional motive.

Is ego part of emotion?

There's no substitute for a genuine set of honkerburgers.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You still might look very good when you smile, though.

Yes. I do

Yurt!

Yurt! wrote: »

There's no substitute for a genuine set of honkerburgers.

I'm sure they can do some moulds of exact set you want.

completedit

completedit wrote: »

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21604870/



Women really have strange preferences tbh

Most men and women would probably disagree. You should try meeting some of them sometime.

NSAman

Absolute bull****, I am always jovial in life.

Office life is easier. Outside life is easier, clients respond more to it. The missus is serious enough for us both, her jobs makes her frown a lot (I won’t mention Botox, but it’s needed shortly).

We go out I smile constantly, we live with people who are constantly frowning, in my opinion.

I have no lack of offers from ladies either.

Must be the big..errrr… wallet

Yurt2

Olivia2 wrote: »

I'm sure they can do some moulds of exact set you want.

Wouldn't trade in Mrs Yurt's front bumpers for the world. Simon and Garfondle I call them.

Yurt!

Yurt! wrote: »

Wouldn't trade in Mrs Yurt's front bumpers for the world. Simon and Garfondle I call them.

Oh yeah . Haven't listened to them for ages.

Church on Tuesday

BrianD3 wrote: »

A proud, macho, vaguely angry look is definitely a good one for males. Men know this hence the reluctance to smile in photographs as you risk looking like a village idiot or "harmless", one of the worst looks that a man can have.

Surprising that a look of shame is good though. My idea of a look of shame is nearly the exact opposite of a proud look - staring at the floor or looking around nervously.

Good luck attracting women with that, for obvious reasons that's an instant turn off.

BrianD3

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Good luck attracting women with that, for obvious reasons that's an instant turn off.

Really, well the evidence from real life is that men who take it a lot further than an angry proud demeanour have no difficulty attracting women. Criminals, thugs, assholes, bullies, volatile men with a bad temper.

I've experienced an element of this myself when I got angry after somebody scratched my car and left the scene, I started ranting and swearing to nobody in particular and a woman who was there at the time got very excited by it. Also know another woman (married, in her 40s) who is obsessed with who would win in a fight between me and her husband and who is stronger etc.

Valid biological reasons why women would want a man with a certain look, demeanour and characteristics. We are animals and people would do well to remember that.

The responses in this thread are, predictably, very poor. So far we've had some ad hominem sneers and dismissal of published research from the university of British Columbia Psychology Dept.

I look forward to posters here publishing their own research refuting these findings.

kowloon

Finally, being miserable is going to pay off.. which makes me happy.

seamus

I've love to know where they recruited the respondents from. It is well known that regional differences abound in this kind of thing, and what is prevailingly attractive alters from place to place and generation to generation.

A survey of 1,000 people in Vancouver versus 1,000 people in Copenhagan, Buenos Aires or Wuhan, will all have very different outcomes.

Church on Tuesday

BrianD3 wrote: »

Really, well the evidence from real life is that men who take it a lot further than an angry proud demeanour have no difficulty attracting women. Criminals, thugs, assholes, bullies, volatile men with a bad temper.

I've experienced an element of this myself when I got angry after somebody scratched my car and left the scene, I started ranting and swearing to nobody in particular and a woman who was there at the time got very excited by it. Also know another woman (married, in her 40s) who is obsessed with who would win in a fight between me and her husband and who is stronger etc.

Valid biological reasons why women would want a man with a certain look, demeanour and characteristics. We are animals and people would do well to remember that.

The responses in this thread are, predictably, very poor. So far we've had some ad hominem sneers and dismissal of published research from the university of British Columbia Psychology Dept.

I look forward to posters here publishing their own research refuting these findings.

They have no difficulty attracting women who are damaged people themselves you mean.

Yurt2

seamus wrote: »

I've love to know where they recruited the respondents from. It is well known that regional differences abound in this kind of thing, and what is prevailingly attractive alters from place to place and generation to generation.

A survey of 1,000 people in Vancouver versus 1,000 people in Copenhagan, Buenos Aires or Wuhan, will all have very different outcomes.

I'd imagine that it would look fairly consistent across cultures really. Longitudinally and across cultures, women don't generally select mates for how jovial they are - more likely they select on how well a male can accrue resources, protect resources and will commit to dispersing resources to the spouse and offspring.

That's crude and there will be slight variances across cultures - but that's the foundation of how female mate selection has occurred for millennia.

Mister Vain

Deleted User wrote: »

everyone is nicer looking when they smile....their faces light up

Unless you've a rake of teeth missing.

completedit

I don't like girls in general because I've also found them to be to prone to groupthink. Their opinions can be skewed very easily when a strong alpha type enters the fray. I've seen girls turn off me and other guys because the alpha types neg them and make them seem inferior and this makes the girls question if they find a guy attractive. It doesn't surprise me that kindness, warmth, happiness are not traits associated with being attractive. Women look for something else but it certainty isn't those traits.

That's just my opinion. I don't have hatred on an individual level. I believe in treating people with respect but these are my honest views.

Mimon

Yurt! wrote: »

I'd imagine that it would look fairly consistent across cultures really. Longitudinally and across cultures, women don't generally select mates for how jovial they are - more likely they select on how well a male can accrue resources, protect resources and will commit to dispersing resources to the spouse and offspring.

That's crude and there will be slight variances across cultures - but that's the foundation of how female mate selection has occurred for millennia.

Or better still for shack up with the steady provider but get impregnated by the womanising egotist.

Children will be well provided for but will have the genes that will make them more likely to pass on these genes in the future.

Montage of Feck

I'm a miserable bastard and have to beat the wimmims off with a stick.