"Males focus on prominent masculine and feminine traits, while women focus on traits that make both male and female bodies more elongated and slender."
Men made the attractive male avatars more muscular than women did:
"Attractive body parts were distributed normally with the peak shifted to moderately supernormal sizes, while unattractive body parts have mostly U-shaped or skewed distributions with extremes in super-supernormal and/or subnormal sizes."
"Moderately supernormal size" - what does that mean? A little bit bigger in these proportions:
"Interestingly, our participants generated avatars whose SHR is almost identical to the measures obtained on male and female fashion models."
"Attractive male and female avatars also have proportionally longer legs."
Meanwhile, short legs: the least attractive bodypart.
The most attractive waist to hip ratio for women was within the normal range.
Combined with a high shoulder to hip ratio, this is basically a "sporty" female physique. Fitness model or athletic look.
However, these were not "masculinized" female physiques and usually also were characterized by some other supernormal female trait, like large breasts or buttocks.
Summed up, men have a stronger preferences for masculinity in male bodies and femininity in female bodies than women do.
These results are similar to the Gigachad facial ratings. Men found him very attractive, women not so much on average.
Men tend to think extreme dimorphism in other men is more attractive than women do.
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I rarely comment on the “bad dating behavior” vid genre, but this one is worth seeing.
The affective shift between video part 1 and part 2 is remarkable. He calmly tells her he will just drive her home (after she refuses to leave the car because she doesn’t like the restaurant).
As an undergraduate I remember learning that peer review was the litmus test for reputable, good science. It was this iron-clad thing. The ultimate seal of approval that lets you know if a paper is trustworthy.
But we were never taught what peer review actually consists of. 🧵
I suspect this is the case for most people: everyone learns that it’s really important, but not how the process works.
They imagine peer review as this well-oiled machine - rigorously vetting your methods and results - combing through your data to make sure it checks out.
Here is an illustration of the peer review process from Taylor & Francis.
At its core it’s a feedback system: 2-3 anonymous reviewers (other people in your field) read your paper and provide feedback.
Underlying this is an inaccurate mental model of the romantic landscape: the belief that physical attraction doesn’t (or shouldn’t) have any impact on your relationship.
It does, though. If you make major improvements to your appearance then your partner may like you more.
Usually we see the opposite: people “let themselves go” in relationships and see a concurrent decline in sexual activity and relationship satisfaction.
“I look better and my husband is more attracted to me” isn’t exactly a bad problem to have, but some people will make a problem out of anything.
We tend to think of passionate love as giving way to committed love with relationship duration. Basically, passion fades with time, but commitment remains (or grows).
However, passionate love may become increasingly important for relationship satisfaction in LTRs and marriage.
This model of love - Sternberg’s triangular theory of passion, intimacy, and commitment - can explain a large degree of variance in relationship satisfaction.