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"This research examined the relative sexual attractiveness of individuals showing emotion expressions of happiness, pride, and shame compared with a neutral control. Across two studies using different images and samples ranging broadly in age (total N = 1041), a large gender difference emerged in the sexual attractiveness of happy displays: happiness was the most attractive female emotion expression, and one of the least attractive in males. In contrast, pride showed the reverse pattern; it was the most attractive male expression, and one of the least attractive in women. Shame displays were relatively attractive in both genders, and, among younger adult women viewers, male shame was more attractive than male happiness, and not substantially less than male pride."

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/emo/11/6/1379/

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Female Happiness 8
Neutral Control 8
Female Pride 4
Male Shame 3
Male Happiness 2
Male Pride 1
Female Shame 0


Mordy, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

I would also just like to point out http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/emo/11/6/1379/

Mordy, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

surprised female pride was considered unattractive because boobs

Adrien Brony (step hen faps), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link

male shame brought the most hearty lol so i voted that

league of women voters, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

lol I was about to post the exact same thing, crut

OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link

god those pictures are awesome

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

kinda concluding that this supports R. Crumb's "men are attracted to physical beauty/women are attracted to power" dictum

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link

'shame' looks more like "I am playing a game on my handheld console/smartphone right now, please go away"

yes this is the real (snoball), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link

my takeaway:

men like teeth
women like GUNS

OH NOES, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link

"I am playing a game on my handheld console/smartphone right now, please go away"

good reason to be ashamed imho

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link

good to know women hate to see men happy

Maybe Bartering Will Help (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link

In the 'happiness' picture he looks like a serial killer, in the 'neutral' picture he looks like he's just sharted.

yes this is the real (snoball), Thursday, 8 December 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link

Since when did pride involve looking like you just ran across the finishing line at a marathon?

Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Thursday, 8 December 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link

F. Happiness > Pride > Neutral >>>> Shame

this cannot be changed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Thursday, 8 December 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link

A smiling female for me. Definitely NOT sexy - the heavily made-up pouty lips and stares on the cover of Maxim and its ilk. They look like they're angry at me; evidently some men find that attractive.

Everything else is secondary, Thursday, 8 December 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link

Shouldn't the person in the Pride picture look more like Lucifer?

http://amazingdata.com/mediadata5/Image/luciferflipped_amazingdata_20090715203212.jpg

you are a baby seal (Abbott), Friday, 9 December 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link

ranked by which would make best band names:

Female Shame
Male Happiness
Neutral Control
Female Pride
Male Shame
Female Happiness
Male Pride

Mr. Stevenson #2, Friday, 9 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link

Pride = a deeper love.

Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 9 December 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link

Kinda like neutral tbh

Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 9 December 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link

xpost*2 surely Neutral Control is a band already!

Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Friday, 9 December 2011 09:59 (twelve years ago) link

you can barely see the dude's face in the pride picture. the shame picture makes him look like he has a weak chin and also a hernia.

sarahel, Friday, 9 December 2011 10:04 (twelve years ago) link

Have resisted captioning the male pics as a four-pic series.

Say "thanks"

Jilted John and Marsha (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Friday, 9 December 2011 10:05 (twelve years ago) link

They've overegged the pudding in the pride pics, with the arms and all

Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 9 December 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link

also, there seems to be differences in lighting besides the facial expression. Like, the chick's boobs look perkier in the happy picture than the neutral one, with the female pride resulting, as crut and dan previously noted, with the most uplifted boobs.

sarahel, Friday, 9 December 2011 10:07 (twelve years ago) link

And she has good reason to be proud, eh guys?

Tony Hart land (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 9 December 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link

no duckface option?

Number None, Friday, 9 December 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link

The female happiness image is a much better imitation of the expression than the male. Happiness is in the eyes, not the teeth, psychologists.

Sanpaku, Friday, 9 December 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link

Male happiness failed to smize.

league of women voters, Friday, 9 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 24 December 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 25 December 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

does female shame even exist i mean really

wrinklepause, Sunday, 25 December 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link

wrinklepause betrayed by delusions of excelsiority

Aimless, Sunday, 25 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link

The neutral pics look more like female and male shame to me.

*tera, Sunday, 25 December 2011 06:19 (twelve years ago) link

all photos p shameful imo

HOOS aka driver of steen, Sunday, 25 December 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link

ws "female happiness" tho

is that wrong

HOOS aka driver of steen, Sunday, 25 December 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link

I feel like somebody made a "ws the patriarchy" joke on real ilx but I cannot find it because ilx is gone :((

macarena of time (step hen faps), Sunday, 25 December 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link


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