Scientists have found out what kind of partners rich and poor men and women need. About which sex is more picky in choosing a life partner and what does “good genes” have to do with it, says the science department of Gazeta.Ru.

Which women are chosen by rich and poor men

Scientists have found out what kind of partners rich and poor men and women need. About which sex is more picky in choosing a life partner and what does “good genes” have to do with it, says the science department of Gazeta.Ru.

We are used to the fact that rich athletes, actors and businessmen go out hand in hand with girls of model appearance. Now, Chinese scientists have conducted a study and found out: the awareness of wealth really makes a man more picky in assessing female beauty. With the results of the work, you can familiarize in Frontiers in Psychology.

A group of psychologists from Peking University conducted two experiments involving students (73 boys and 48 girls) in stable heterosexual relationships. Volunteers were provoked to feel that they had more or less money. To do this, they were asked to imagine themselves rich or poor and write a story about their financial situation.

A few days later, the students were asked to participate in a direct experiment, but the students did not know the real purpose of the study. They were told the legend in order to get the most reliable results.

The students were given photographs of people of the opposite sex and asked to rate their appearance. If a person considered the image of a young man or girl attractive, then they were allowed to talk for three minutes.

If an experimental student sat close to a stranger and generally looked satisfied after the experiment, then this was considered as a willingness to enter into a relationship with an attractive stranger.

In the course of the study, the researchers found that men and women who felt financially more wealthy were more likely to demonstrate their desire to start a new relationship. At the same time, men were generally more active: they sat closer to their partners than women.

In addition, students were asked how satisfied they were with the physical attractiveness of their chosen ones.

It turned out that if a man felt richer, he was less satisfied with the appearance of the chosen one, and vice versa. Interestingly, no such dependence was observed in women.

According to the authors of the work, their study proves that a person changes his relationship strategy depending on external conditions.

These results are consistent with the results of similar studies, which also showed that, unlike men, women do not increase the requirements for the appearance of their lovers when they become rich.This phenomenon can be explained by the theory of parental contribution of Trivers.

According to this theory, men and women unequally assess the attractiveness of the opposite sex due to the fact that they devote different times to their offspring.

Women spend more time with children due to gestation, lactation and care for them during the first years of life. Therefore, for the female, reproductive success is to find a man who has sufficient resources for comfortable education of offspring. But for men, reproductive success is determined by the number of fertile partners, scientists say. Men evaluate the fertility of a woman according to her external data. In addition, men have a greater desire for short -term relationships than women.

At the same time, according to the theory of strategic pluralism, a person is able to change his approach to romantic relations depending on external conditions.

So, if a woman acquires financial independence, then she can begin to pay more attention not to the resources of the partner, but to his external attractiveness in order to convey “good genes” to the offspring.

In this case, a woman is more readily entered into a short relationship.

Men also evaluate their partner differently when they do not have large resources. Poor men are more serious about their half and are less inclined to enter into accidental connections. They present fewer requirements for women and are generally more pleased with their partners.