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There’s a reason every hot person ends up dumping you, and it has nothing to do with you
Just give me an ‘F’ and call it a day
Incase you needed another reason to hate science and hot peoplpe, you definitely don’t need to look far. For I come, bearing awful news, from a scientific lab near you.
You heard right. According to a new study, hot people are officially awful at long term relationships. I promise, it’s not you, it’s them. Unless you are said ‘hot person’, in which case, you should quit dating all together, and stop breakin’ all our fragile less-hot hearts.
Led by Christine Ma-Kellams, the mission of the study was to better understand the ways in which physical attractiveness impacts personal and intimate relationships.
There were four studies conducted. In the first study, a number of old yearbook photos were looked at, the subjects were then searched, and the ones who’d been rated hottest were far more often divorced. The second study was similar, but was of male and female celebrities, and the results mirrored the first.
In a third study, a number of participants were asked to “rate the attractiveness of certain targets in photos,” and those in committed relationships were far more open about how attractive they thought those target were, proving that being in a relationship doesn’t stop us from finding other people attractive, and certainly doesn’t stop us from voicing that.
In the last experiment, subject were shown a series of photos — in one case less attractive than them, and in the other case, more attractive than them (google sourced as ‘unattractive male/female, attractive male/female). Because the ones looking at ‘less attractive’ photos felt better about themselves, they were quick to up-rate the attractive photos that followed – and this was specifically so when they’d previously admitted they were dissatisfied in their current relationship. For the people who’d seen more attractive photos first, making them feel less attractive, this was not the case.
So what I’m really saying here is, the next time you decided to date someone for their looks instead of their personality, just know it’s going to end in an awful heart-wrenching breakup, and I can just save you a lot of time right now by suggesting you gun for someone slightly uglier.