Forget being tall, dark, and handsome — being a good storyteller is what women are attracted to, says a new study.
Research from
the U.S. found men who are good at spinning yarns were seen as better
relationship prospects than their average storyteller counterparts.
“Storytelling ability appears to increase [a man’s]
perceived status, and thus helps men attract long-term partners,”
revealed Melanie Green of the University of Buffalo and John Donahue of
the University of North Carolina.
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It’s believed this can be traced back to evolution
and the need for women to “invest wisely” in finding someone who can
provide for and protect them.
“Women try to
identify a mate who can provide resources to any offspring,” explained
Green and Donahue. “Given that women are likely to value a ‘good dad’ or
provider more in long-term relationships, our findings suggest that
male storytelling ability may suggest resource-gaining prowess to women
— especially if good storytellers can gain higher social status.”
Ladies, apparently there’s no need to start
practicing your own storytelling skills — the study found men didn’t
find the same quality as attractive in women. Sigh.
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University at Buffalo was published in the journal Personal
Relationships. The researchers' work used three studies to examine
gender differences in how storytelling ability impacted an individual's
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Regular exercise in middle age is the best lifestyle change a
person can make to prevent cognitive decline in the later years, a
landmark 20-year study has found. University of Melbourne researchers
followed 387 Australian women from the Women's Healthy Ageing Project
for two decades. The women were aged 45 to 55-years-old when the study
began in 1992. The research team made note of their lifestyle factors,
including exercise and diet, education, marital and employment status,
number of children, mood, physical activity and smoking. The women's'
hormone levels, cholesterol, height, weight, Body Mass Index and blood
pressure were recorded 11 times throughout the study. Hormone
replacement therapy ...
At least that's what a team of researchers concluded in a study
that found men's prowess as storytellers to be a big factor in their
perceived status and attractiveness to the opposite sex. The joint paper
out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the
University at Buffalo was published in the journal Personal
Relationships. The researchers' work used three studies to examine
gender differences in how storytelling ability impacted an individual's
attractiveness as a long-term and short-term romantic partner. Out of
this group, 55 percent were women, and each person was asked to rate a
potential romantic partner's level of attractiveness based on a
biography that he or she wrote. ...
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