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https://www.medicaldaily.com/bad-boys-smoking-and-drinking-dangerous-men-385438
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...pealing-teetotallers-heavy-drinking-ugly.html
There’s just something about the “bad boy” with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other that some women find irresistible, and a new study may finally explain why. According to the research, many women find men who practice “risky” behavior to be more sexually open and more appealing for an exciting short-term sexual encounter. However, when it comes to more long-term mating partners, it seems that nice guys do finish first.
For the study, now published in the online journal Evolutionary Psychology, Eveline Vincke from the University of Ghent in Belgium interviewed 239 women between the ages of 17 and 30 about their views of smoking and drinking behaviors in men. All women were Flemish and lived in a Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The women were shown 10 profiles of men. The profiles addressed both the young men’s smoking and drinking behavior and their other behaviors and hobbies, such as playing sports and sunbathing. The women were asked how likely they were to have a short-term relationship, such as a one-night-stand, or a long-term relationship, such as marriage, with each of the men displayed in the profiles.
Results revealed that most participants rated men as being more attractive as short-term relationship partners when they were portrayed as occasional smokers and occasional or heavy drinkers. However, men who were portrayed as non-smokers and moderate-to-non-drinkers were found to be more attractive as long-term relationship partners.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...pealing-teetotallers-heavy-drinking-ugly.html
The subjects were shown 25 pictures people's faces from the opposite sex, each with a random label depicting their drinking habits.
These were desbribed using four statements, such as: 'This college student frequently drinks heavily' or 'this college student drinks socially on occasion' or 'this college student never drinks', and 'this college student is a recovering alcoholic and therefore abstains from using alcohol'.
The students where asked to decide how appealing each face was, giving each picture a rating for attractiveness, intelligence, likeability and approachability on a 0-7 scale.
Social drinkers were given a median score of 3.69 while the second best-liked group were recovering alcoholics with 3.42, followed by teetotallers with a 3.27 median appeal rate. Heavy drinkers wound up at the bottom of the ranking, with 2.86.
As the drinking habits were associated randomly to each picture, and were constantly varied, the researchers could observe that similar descriptions elicited similar ratings, regardless of each face's attractiveness.
In their study, published on the journal Addictive Behaviors they singled out a psychological phenomenon called 'homophily' as a possible explanation for the results.
Homophily is the tendency to like more, and spend more time with people we think are more similar to ourselves.