Science Says: Ladies, Just Say No To Hot Guys Its the news all women who have dated know and dont always talk about, but now has an actual scientific conclusion to back the generality: the most attractive men out there, the ones that make us girls pant, are, for the most part, well, selfish aholes as described by Charlotte Litton of The Daily Beast. Psychologists at Brunel University in London measured the bodies of 125 men and women using a 3D scanner, calculating traditionally attractive traits such as slimness and waist-to-hip ratio (for the latter group). They then completed a personality test, which assessed their attitudes to selfishness and inequality, before partaking in a money-based economics experiment, designed to challenge their beliefs on having and sharing wealth. Our results showed that in fact we may be justified in expecting more attractive men to behave in ways that are less favourable to economic and social equality, says the papers lead investigator, Dr. Michael Price. The results suggest that better-looking men may be biased towards being more selfish and less egalitarian. And they are amazingly biased in the who they will date department, too. Two ounces of cellulite on a woman in the wrong place equals disqualified. (Oops, did I say that?) In the ever increasing world of we must prove absolutely everything scientifically this information might evoke shoulder shrugs from most women who have been thrown over by guys who go after young, nubile, and perfectly lovely in their own right ladies for what we assume are strictly visual reasons. (And its highly entertaining when those young ladies tell them to get lost, although that happens less often to the truly hot guys.) The question that really needs to be answered is why this is the case. The answer coming from this study is very simple: because of a complete accident of nature, they can: Attractiveness being perceived as a strength dates back to early human ancestral environments, where physically admirable or formidable people were deemed to have a greater ability to benefit or harm others, thus increasing their bargaining power in social situations. These naturally-bestowed traits, such as fitness and developmental stability, would have given them a certain predisposition to win social competitions, thereby benefitting from any advanced status or resources that followed. This unequal balance would swing in favor of societys lookers, meaning that they would value social norms promoting inequality as it would serve them best, while average Joes would find those promoting equality the most advantageous. Hence why any woman would pant over such hotness. Its the way we are hardwired. To put it mildly, guys who are hot and know it, by virtue of their good looks, are predisposed to success and monetary stability. Dr. Price [says]people who are more attractive have to do less to make themselves valuable to other people [because] theyre already highly valued by virtue of their high attractiveness. This isnt the end of the road for self-serving sexpots, though: The best way to help people overcome a bias is to make them more conscious that they have it, Dr. Price advises. So, if a guy is a self-centered, spoiled, spends too many hours in the gym, and happens to be dripping with testosterone, the best thing for him is to tell him so? Sure. Or, we ladies can do what they really need to hear and feel and just dump the dude, even if he is pretty to look at. (Not that it would really matter since such guys can just find arm candy where ever they go.) What was shocking to the researchers, though, is that the attractiveness anti-social traits do not translate always across gender lines: While these assessments were valid for the men in the study, a perhaps unprecedented development was among the women involved, who were found to be no more selfish than average- lookers. This proves that hotties arent hard-wired to be douchier than notties, just that good looking men are seemingly incapable of caring about anyone other than themselves. Good job, guys! In the parlance of Ms. Litton, notties arent fawned over to the point of letting their looks go to their heads. Of course, this generality is not true for all men, just as it is true that witchy women come in all shapes and sizes. Some of the most annoying and truly selfish men this writer has encountered were in no way hot regardless of how much iron they pumped. What it does prove, though, is that good-looking guys have to be careful about letting attention due to those looks blind them to their own human failings. Just as an aside and piece of advice to guys writing online dating profiles: ripped and hard body are red flag phrases. Also, wife beater t-shirts are not attractive unless one is at the beach or the pool. Being reasonably fit is one thing. Bragging about the hours spent in the gym and showing offyeah, you get the picture. 