What Do You Look For In A Romantic Partner

What do you look for in a romantic partner? If you are a hetero sexual male, is it the 36-24-36, pretty face, tiny waist, flirty eyed brunette? Hetero women, are you looking for that tall, strong, dark man with broad shoulders? Gay men… bear or boy toy? Lesbians… butch or with a little lipstick? Or does your preference defy convention? How would you react if someone changed their appearance, personality, finantial security, or status, purposefully, in order to deceive you? Matthew Dussault, Mahzad Hojjat, and Thomas R. Boone, from the University of Massatuches, published a study about deception and intimacy. In the article they said there was a “Dark Triad of Personalities”; consisting of Machiavellianism ("the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct"1), narcissism, and psychopathy. After filling out a questionnaire about deceptive tactics in attracting potential dating partners, level of intimacy, and previous dating history; they found that men who scored higher in Machiavellianism showed a greater chance of using various deceptive tactics while not caring so much about relationship intimacy. On the other hand, women’s degree of Machiavellianism and deceptive strategies was lessened by past intimate behaviors.
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Joseph J. Benz, Mary K. Anderson, and Richard L. Miller, from the University of Nebraska, published in a 2005 issue of The Psychological Record, a study involving attributions of deception in dating situations. The study showed evidence that men and women believe selection criteria used by one sex parallels deceptive tactics used by the opposite sex. When 62 women and 30 men were surveyed, it became clear, both men and women believe that men attempt to deceive women about their financial status and level of commitment, and that women attempt to deceive men about their physical attractiveness. The results further enforce the fact that humans try and make themselves