Blackpill Rejection Hurts: The Effect of Being Dumped on Subsequent Mating Efforts

[The Notorious SLAV]

Just don't be turned down yourself and turn down women asking you out inkwell.

Here, we tested the hypothesis that finding out potential partners were rejected by their last partner would negatively affect participants' desire to pursue a romantic relationship with them. Results support this hypothesis, and this effect was, as predicted, greater when the target was being evaluated for a potential long-term relationship compared to a sexual relationship.

In a more exploratory vein, we tested the effect of the target having rejected their last partner and failing to disclose how their last relationship ended. These scenarios produced intriguing sex differences, such that men's ratings of women fell after learning she had rejected her last partner, but women's ratings of men increased after the same information was introduced. Failing to disclose information about a past relationship was unappealing to both men and women, though particularly so for women.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470491000800410

 

[EnglishCel]

I've never had the chance to turn down women.

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

I've never had the chance to turn down women.

Yup, that's the catch here. Turning down women makes you hotter, but you already need to be a certain level of hot to even be in a position to attract a woman and then turn her down.

 

[EnglishCel]

Yup, that's the catch here. Turning down women makes you hotter, but you already need to be a certain level of hot to even be in a position to attract a woman and then turn her down.

A catch-22.