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A NEW STUDY by an American university has found that a woman’s opinion of a man is mainly determined by two factors – his attractiveness and how well behaved he is.
This is according to a new study published in the most recent edition of ‘Gender Issues’.
The research looked at the importance of first impressions and how they impacted on long-term relationships.
It was found that for women, the most important features for a man to have was attractiveness and a tendency to stick to social norms.
According to Science Daily, such impressions are often “made in a flash” but can often be incorrect.
The study
The research was carried out by Jeremy Gibson and Jonathan Gore at the Eastern Kentucky University, with testing being carried out on 170 university-aged women.
They were shown two male faces, one attractive and one not attractive – although both with similar features.
The researchers then gave the girls two different scenarios for each individual picture they were shown – one in which the person in the picture committed a major faux-pas, and the other where they didn’t.
It was found that a man doing something socially out of step was a bigger put off than his being unattractive.
What did it identify?
One of the main findings of the study was the ‘devil’ and ‘halo’ effects.
With the ‘devil’ effect, the less-attractive man was tolerated up to the point that he committed a certain social transgression. After this, the negative perception of his wrong doing was amplified by his ugliness.
“The unattractive male is tolerated up to a point; his unattractiveness is OK until he misbehaves,” Gibson explained.
This was shown to be particularly prevalent in online dating profiles – where displaying alarming information is much more likely to be forgiven for more attractive men, demonstrating the ‘halo’ effect.
It was also found in the course of the study that more attractive men were likely to get less severe fines and sentences in the judicial system.
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Christ, around 5am the wind changed direction here in galway as the storm past, thought the house was gone
@David Hynes: Sounds really terrifying, can only imagine how you felt. We were lucky here, minimum damage as far as I can see.
Have just woken up to a beautiful morning here in south east. Was all this hype really nessessary.
@John Flanagan: try being here in the west!
@Joe x: I’m out near Dublin Airport, and it’s pretty bad here at the moment.
@Joe x: we must have been lucky. Stay safe.
@John Flanagan: The South East is one of the least affected regions, still it’s impacting the boats coming into Rosslare Harbour…
@John Flanagan: trees down everywhere in the midlands all trains from Athlone in all directions cancelled until they get rid of trees across the tracks
@John Flanagan: it’s windy enough in wicklow John
@John Flanagan: “I’m OK so everyone else must be too”
@John Flanagan: What hype? Did you read the article or are you just being a troll
Bit early in the morning I think for you
@Jimmy Wallace: There’s always one who says,’There’s always one.
@John Flanagan: You are an ignoramus.
@John Flanagan: we are in Meath, up all night and have woken up to extensive damage outside. Stay safe everyone.
@John Flanagan: I suppose you are the first to complain if they don’t have a hype when it is necessary in your opinion.
@John Flanagan: All that hype about about bombing in Gaza and Ukraine, perfectly quiet round here.
@Lin: me too navan. Fence down and broken
Will somebody please think of the children
Just give me the day off like.
@Claudia: It sounds like you don’t contribute much to your job anyway like.
@Claudia: Did ya get the day off like…?
Did this storm start in Dallas, has that City already been done?
@Bert Carolan: Dallas was Well and truly done
@Bert Carolan: big blow
Storms do not follow county boundary lines. When will Met Éireann realize this?
@Max: Think of the possible chaos if ME used a different system? If half a County was red? Exactly which bit am I in?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Yeah, if only there was a system identifying my exact location within a county or region…we could call it an Eircode, wait a minute!!!
@Si Con: How do you envisage a storm warning system based on Eircodes to work? If people cannot cope with the possible arbitrary nature of a system based on county boundaries they will be complaining about the time next. “It said Orange until 10.00am but the wind died down at 9.15! Who do I complain to?”
@Si Con: you actually seriously expect storm warni gs to work by eircode fml
If Google did storm warnings, with the amount of data we give online, they would probably be able to tell everyone where their trampolines and bins were on the hour!
Stay Safe folks and don’t make unnecessary journeys.
Closing the schools doesn’t stop the spread of the storm. Wake up sheeple.
@Alberto Balsam: but it’s baaaaaaa’d for too many road users to be out in this, me and my maaaaaaaaaa are following the warnings and staying at home, so should ewe.
@Alberto Balsam: You think that’s why the schools are closed this morning?
@Llennoc: it’s called sarcasm you simpleton.
@Alberto Balsam: It’s more satire, but however, the lovely Llennoc still wouldn’t get it.
Lots of Debi Debris around drive safe
Storm over in Galway and NOW the power goes off!
Debbi Me Gee)))
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