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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPsychological study: Men are attracted to non-conformist women.
Last edited Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:02 AM - Edit history (1)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-are-attracted-to-nonconformist-women/In the new work, which studied subjects who identified as either heterosexual or bisexual, both women and men preferred nonconformist partnersthose whose clothes, opinions or life decisions broke the normwhen selecting from online dating profiles, describing ideal partners or picturing dates with people they had just met.
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Other research has shown breaking rules to be a good indicator of status and power, which may explain part of its appeal for both sexes, but gender role expectations have yet to catch up.
The old-fashioned gender stereotypethat men go for conformist, submissive womenhas been slow to die, says lead author Matthew Hornsey, a social psychologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. I'm intrigued by the notion of the girls' night out and how many women feel as though they can be more unguarded without men aroundmore relaxed, more crass, more honest, more funny. And I keep thinking, Why are you keeping this good stuff to yourselves? Men would love it!
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"If you want to land a man, you must look like this and behave like this. You must memorize all of Cosmopolitan's 1000 tips how to satisfy the man in your life."
Well, I think the best answer to this misconception is a quote from "Bridget Jones":
"I like you very much just as you are."
EDIT: I changed the title to a more conformist one after receiving complaints from commenters.
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Psychological study: Men are attracted to non-conformist women. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Oct 2015
OP
I would have told you, "opposites attract" for half the cost of this study cuz I'm a giver.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2015
#6
This article was originally published with the title "Men Prefer Weird Women."
hobbit709
Oct 2015
#11
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)1. I don't think weird
and nonconformist is the same thing. You changed the title of the article.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)2. Non-conformity is "weird"?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)3. "Different"
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. This man agrees. But then I'm a little weird.
bvf
(6,604 posts)5. Randy Newman weighs in...
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)6. I would have told you, "opposites attract" for half the cost of this study cuz I'm a giver.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)7. Why did you change the entire meaning of the title?
That is "weird"... to make up a title which hasn't a thing to do with the linked article..
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)8. Most of the women in my life including my wife were definitely not "normal"
A couple went beyond weird to downright strange.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)9. You should correct your OP.
It's misleading and does not reflect the title of the article you cite.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)10. Is that better?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)11. This article was originally published with the title "Men Prefer Weird Women."
As it says at the bottom of the page