Women find uninterested men more interesting

Summary of story from Daily Star, and search 9.2.11.

A new study reveals the more men fake lack of interest, remedy the more women find them attractive.

Researchers studied 47 female undergraduates who thought the experiment was designed to discover whether Facebook could work as an online dating site.

Each was told male students from two other universities had viewed their Facebook profile and those of up to 20 other girls.

Then the women were shown the profiles of four virtual men on the site.

Some of the women were told they’d been shown the four men who liked them the most, while others were simply told these were the four men who rated them as “average”.

A third group were told the men could be either the ones who liked them most or the ones who liked them about average – meaning the women were unsure about the men’s level of interest in them.

And it was the students in the “unsure” group who reported finding the four men the most attractive.

Researcher Erin Whitchurch said: “When people first meet, it may be that popular dating advice is correct.”

“Keeping people in the dark about how much we like them will increase how much they think about us and will pique their interest.”

Imagine how much energy we could save if we cut down on these pointless studies.