Post: #1

Science confirming what we know already.
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Research has documented a robust stereotype regarding personality attributes related to physical attractiveness (the “what is beautiful is good” stereotype). But do physically attractive women indeed possess particularly attractive inner attributes?

Studying traits and values, we investigated two complementary questions: how perceived attractiveness relates to perceived personality, and how it relates to actual personality. First, 118 women reported their traits and values and were videotaped reading the weather forecast. Then, 118 judges rated the traits, values, and attractiveness of the women.

As hypothesized, attractiveness correlated with attribution of desirable traits, but not with attribution of values.

By contrast, attractiveness correlated with actual values, but not actual traits: Attractiveness correlated with tradition and conformity values (which were contrasted with self-direction values) and with self-enhancement values (which were contrasted with universalism values).

Thus, despite the widely accepted “what is beautiful is good” stereotype, our findings suggest that the beautiful strive for conformity rather than independence and for self-promotion rather than tolerance.


http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/201...source=mfr

Post: #2

This would seem to confirm what I bet a lot of us have witnessed ourselves and understand to be anecdotally: women, (especially the attractive ones), are herd animals.

Post: #3

A clear example of this is how women who are 'early adopters' of something tend to be uglier than average. The exception is when this something is meant to raise female attractiveness, eg beauty products and fashion items, or is otherwise explicitly female oriented.

I will say though, that the surest way to tell how 'cool' a trend, area, or venue is is the concentration of hot girls associated with it. People will rarely outright say that, but it's almost always true.

Roissy or someone else had a theory of 'if the hot girls are protesting, change is coming.' If the status quo is so bad that even hot girls feel like they're suffering, then things will change.

Post: #4

At least they have kept their demands worldly, aka 50 shades of grey- top 1% of all men. I get the distinct feeling that women used to demand that their men do sorcery, live at the top of Olympus, etc