Study on the importance of looks and money for romantic desire and satisfaction.

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from /r/blackpillscience ():
Very good study with HUGE sample sizes.

physical attractiveness predicted romantic evaluations with a moderate-to-strong effect size (r = ∼.40) for both sexes, and earning prospects predicted romantic evaluations with a small effect size (r = ∼.10) for both sexes.

So moneymaxing is legit in that it at least increases the way the opposite sex evaluates you romantically, but looks are still 4 times more important. It's interesting because we are taught that having a career/money (aka betabux) is more important for men (provider role), but in reality it's the same effect for both sexes in evaluating a partner.

Other interesting findings:

When people initially consider someone as a potential romantic partner, attractiveness is very important, and the association between attractiveness and romantic evaluations drops once the relationship has been formed. Yet as two people remain together in a relationship, the association of attractiveness with romantic evaluations slowly begins to increase again.

Pretty brutal: The longer your relationship lasts, the more important looks start to become again in having your partner remain romantically interested in you. If your looks drop-off once you get into a relationship, your relationship is going to suffer greatly once the honeymoon phase wears off.

Men and women consistently reveal differences when asked to rate the importance of physical attractiveness and earning prospects in an ideal romantic partner Yet, as the present meta-analysis demonstrated, the associations of physical attractiveness and earning prospects with romantic evaluations are not sex differentiated in attraction contexts and relationship contexts. Thus, the metaanalytic data indirectly suggest that ideal partner preferences might not affect how people evaluate romantic partners once a face-toface interaction has taken place

Aka, what we all know: women will lie more about what they want in a partner than men in hypothetical situations.

If ideal partner preferences affect how people evaluate potential romantic partners in their everyday lives, then participants (on average) should be more attracted to opposite-sex friends and acquaintances who happen to match their ideals than to those who mismatch their ideals.
However, as in the speed-dating studies reviewed above, ideal partner preferences exhibited little predictive validity. [...] which indicates that physical attractiveness predicted romantic desire regardless of participants’ stated ideals.

It doesn't seem to matter at all to both sexes that a partner matches your ideals, only physical attractiveness seems to matter.

Inb4 some bluepiller comes in and starts talking about personality and status again.

 

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Just fucking lol if you are not good looking

 

[Butthurt Dweller]

Looks are everythingl, anything else is temporary cope