While romantic preferences are idiosyncratic, certain attributes are widely considered attractive by heterosexual women… They are: aesthetics, mental health, social capital, wealth, physical attractiveness, and niceness.
I’m curious what a similar list would look like for heterosexual men.
There is some evidence that women are risk-averse rather than expectation maximizing, i.e. it’s more important to indicate that you are at least acceptable on each of these dimensions than it is to indicate that you are exceptional on one of them.
This is not what is usually called “risk averse”. Risk aversity is about preferences between different “lotteries”, not about tradeoffs between situations with no uncertainty.
I’m curious what a similar list would look like for heterosexual men.
This is not what is usually called “risk averse”. Risk aversity is about preferences between different “lotteries”, not about tradeoffs between situations with no uncertainty.