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Partnered-Up Men More Attractive to Women

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Women rate a man they see with an attractive woman as more desirable than an unattached man. Erika Beras reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.6

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Erica Barris. Got a minute?

0:40.2

It turns out the best-looking thing on a man, maybe a good-looking woman.

0:45.0

Researchers report that women find a man they see with an attractive woman more desirable than unattached men.

0:51.0

That's according to a study in the journal, Evolutionary Psychology. Researchers had two groups

0:56.4

of female college students rate photos of men, all of whom had first been rated as being of

1:01.5

average attractiveness. The first group of 148 women was shown pictures of those men with an attractive

1:07.2

female. The subjects were told that the women in the photos were either a girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, cousin,

1:13.3

or adopted sister.

1:14.8

And the subjects rated the men with the girlfriends

1:16.9

as more desirable than the men shown with partners

1:19.4

described as being exes or relatives.

1:22.1

The second study group of 97 students

1:24.3

were shown average-looking men with an attractive woman

1:27.2

who was described as

1:28.1

definitely a girlfriend. And again, the women rated the men with the good-looking gals as more

1:33.0

desirable than the single guys. Plus, the attached men were thought more likely to be more

1:37.9

intelligent, trustworthy, humorous, wealthy, and attentive. Researchers deduced that the women

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