When it comes to dating, research has concluded that for the most part, women aren’t as shallow as one might think. But a new study suggests that there is still one element of a man’s appearance that women do indeed care deeply about. Spoiler alert: It’s height.
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Many women are indeed height queens. The phenomenon has largely been attributed to the evolutionary psychology arguments that link height to traits like masculinity, power, and the ability to pass on tall people genes to male children so that they too can reap the societal rewards of being tall.
Women who chose to marry taller men did indeed report higher levels of overall happiness. In fact, he reported that “a greater height difference in a couple was positively related to the wife’s happiness,” which suggests that the taller the husband, the happier the wife.
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Sorry, Guys—Science Says Women Care Quite a Bit About How Tall You Are
It’s worth noting that Sohn’s research was limited to a single country — he analyzed the survey responses of 7,850 Indonesian women — so it might not exactly be representative of women’s views the world over. In an effort to get beyond the results of this study and conduct an informal poll of...
Many women are indeed height queens. The phenomenon has largely been attributed to the evolutionary psychology arguments that link height to traits like masculinity, power, and the ability to pass on tall people genes to male children so that they too can reap the societal rewards of being tall.
Women who chose to marry taller men did indeed report higher levels of overall happiness. In fact, he reported that “a greater height difference in a couple was positively related to the wife’s happiness,” which suggests that the taller the husband, the happier the wife.
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Thoughts?
