Our external appearance is supposed to show who we really are, and in today's society, we often want to use it to portray a different image of ourselves than it really is, for various reasons. These tricks have been scientifically proven to make men more attractive to women. Has your loved one been charmed by any of these things?
He pretends to be older.
Psychologists call this phenomenon 'the George Clooney effect'. A 2010 study, which involved 3,770 heterosexual adults, found that women prefer older men. Lead author of the study and University of Dundee psychologist Fhionna Moore he says, that the reason lies in the fact that women who are financially independent are more likely to trust strong and attractive older men.
He pretends to be of a higher social class
In a 2010 study from the University of Wales found that men who drove a Silver Bentley Continental GT were perceived as more attractive than those who drove a Red Ford Fiesta ST. She also showed similar results study from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2014, which found that men who lived in luxury housing were rated as more attractive than those who did not.
Beard
In a 2013 study from the University of New South Wales, participants (177 men and 351 women) rated whether they liked their beards very bushy, medium bushy, freshly shaved, or completely shaved. Women said they found a medium bushy beard the most attractive. Facial hair is not only associated with maturity and masculinity, but also with dominance and aggression, by Barnaby J. Dixson and Robert C. Brooks.
Red clothes
2010 Cross-Cultural Study (participants from China, England, Germany and the USA) found that women are most attracted to men who wear the color red. In one experiment from the study, 55 women looked at a photo of a man wearing a red or green T-shirt and then rated their attractiveness. The man who was more attractive to them wore a red shirt. The results were similar when the researchers compared the red shirt to other colored shirts.
He walks the dog
In a 2014 experiment from the Ruppin Academic Center in Israel and the University of Michigan had 100 Israeli women read stories about different men. Some were described as 'cheaters': who would cheat on their partner. Others were described as 'dads': people who work hard and take care of their children.
Every time there was a 'cheater' with a dog in the story, the women rated that man as a more suitable long-term partner. These men with dogs were even more attractive than men who work hard and take care of children. Researchers have found that having a pet indicates that you are capable of making long-term commitments. But it can also help you become more relaxed, approachable and happy.
Scars
The scar you got when you fell off your bike as a kid can help you attract a partner. In a 2009 study researchers at the University of Liverpool and the University of Stirling took photographs of 24 men and 24 women. Half of the photos were digitally manipulated so that some people were 'scarred'. 200 heterosexual men and women then rated the people in the photographs. The results showed that women find men with scars more attractive for short-term relationships than men without scars.
Kindness
One of the best-known effects in psychology is the halo effect, in which we unconsciously attribute one aspect of personality to a person's general character. As psychologist and author Scott Barry Kaufman notes, the halo effect works in other ways as well.
In a 2014 Chinese study more than 100 young people rated the attractiveness of men and women. Each face was assigned a word that described a positive (kindness or sincerity) and a negative personality trait (mean or malicious). The results showed that people who were described with positive characteristics were rated as more attractive.
