Dan Ariely and Hot People
I have been itching to read Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational for weeks now. I haven’t ordered it on Amazon because my wife has put me on book-buying hiatus, suggesting that I should support my local public library (that’s another story). It sounds like great fun and an interesting look inside our own CPUs.
So with the book in mind I came across this article earlier today. Apparently UT researchers have demonstrated that the more attractive a woman is communally regarded as, the more selective she is about that attributes of her mate (which include earning power, physical pulchritude, familial skills and loyalty).
This is in stark contrast compared to men. Erik reminded me that Professor Ariely was one of the co-authors of What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating. In the paper (which discusses women and men through the veil of online dating), their study isolates a particular parameter for the male criteria as a potential mate. It’s pretty heady stuff: apparently dudes prefer hot women.