This is fascinating. I wonder if it also applies to psychological protection. E.g., defending a partner’s reputation, demonstrating loyalty and fidelity. And by extension, if a partner is more attractive for those types of protective behavior, is later harm by that partner (betrayal, failure to defend, verbal abuse, etc.) then even more destructive to their attractiveness quotient?
This is fascinating. I wonder if it also applies to psychological protection. E.g., defending a partner’s reputation, demonstrating loyalty and fidelity. And by extension, if a partner is more attractive for those types of protective behavior, is later harm by that partner (betrayal, failure to defend, verbal abuse, etc.) then even more destructive to their attractiveness quotient?
Interesting! My guess is that it does apply to psychological/social protection as well. That definitely rings true.
the findings are stunning, in terms of how they disentangled strength and willingness to protect.
i’ve yet to read the paper…what i dont understand is why would males find that attractive of females?