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[[File:Is he cute, or just very tall.png|thumb|right|A woman realizing that personality is only a spook.]] | [[File:Is he cute, or just very tall.png|thumb|right|A woman realizing that personality is only a spook.]] | ||
'''Personality''' is | '''Personality''' is about 50% determined by genes and 50% by the environment, but the environmental effects are very unpredictable, almost random.<ref>https://www.coursera.org/lecture/behavioralgenetics/7a-shared-versus-non-shared-environment-distinction-Vjh21</ref> This is evidenced by adoptive, non-related children reared together being as different as two individuals randomly chosen from the population.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3147063/pdf/dyq148.pdf</ref> Based on such results, one can exclude shared factors (i.e. factors explaining personality that are shared by siblings or twins) like parenting style, social economic standing of the family, presence of environmental toxins, diet etc. to have no effect on personality. This leaves the entire non-genetic variance in personality to be explained by nonshared factors like peers, school environment, selective parenting styles, individual experiences, accidents and abuse, however, no reliable causal factors have been identified as of yet, which might mean they are largely random. Further, abuse can also be excluded as it has almost no effect on adult psychology functioning (see [[antifragility]]). | ||
Research shows that men with psychopathic traits (in laymen's terms called ''bad boys'') are more attractive to women than those who don't.<ref>https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/dating-a-psychopath</ref> | [[Beauty|Physical attractiveness]] is slightly related to various positive personality traits like agreeableness (r < .11),<ref>Dunkel, C. S., Nedelec, J. L., van der Linden, D., & Marshall, R. L. (2016). Physical Attractiveness and the General Factor of Personality. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 3(3), 185–197. doi:10.1007/s40750-016-0055-7</ref> | ||
which is sometimes explained by good looking people being better treated and hence developing a more positive personality.<ref>https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED326784</ref> | |||
Social skills may be weakly (r = .23) linked to physical attractiveness for the same reason.<ref>Ashmore, R. D., & Longo, L. C. (n.d.). Accuracy of stereotypes: What research on physical attractiveness can teach us. Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences., 63–86. doi:10.1037/10495-003</ref> | |||
Perceived personality is strongly influenced by looks with good looking people being generally perceived to have a better personality due to the [[halo effect]].<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873083/</ref> | |||
== Personality and mating performance == | |||
Research shows that men with psychopathic traits (in laymen's terms called ''bad boys'') are more attractive to women than those who don't.<ref>https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/dating-a-psychopath</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Personality</ref> However, it is unclear whether this is due to female choice or male [[intrasexual competition]], mutual domination and intimidation.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Among_male_university_students.2C_only_cues_of_physical_dominance_over_other_men_predicted_their_mating_success</ref> | |||
Overall evidence suggests, personality does not matter much for romantic attraction. Especially at low-acquaintance level, romantic interest is nearly entirely explained by looks, though looks also only weakly predict lifetime reproductive success (see [[beauty]]). [[Arranged marriage]]s are very common in humans, and in such settings neither personality nor looks matter particularly. | |||
Positive personality traits like mental stability, niceness and optimism are weakly linked to relationship stability,<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656618301508?via%3Dihub</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily_Butler3/publication/6952141_Optimism_in_Close_Relationships_How_Seeing_Things_in_a_Positive_Light_Makes_Them_So/links/00b7d52b348893b037000000/Optimism-in-Close-Relationships-How-Seeing-Things-in-a-Positive-Light-Makes-Them-So.pdf</ref> but this is possibly explained by an underlying genetic [[life history]] speed factor, meaning a genetic fast-life strategy causes both relationship instability and mental/behavioral instability, rather than conscious effort regarding personality improving the relationship quality or mating success substantially. Romantic idealization is unrelated to long-term relationship stability (see [[romance]]). In other words, the [[bluepill]] trivializes dating difficulties by stating it is a matter of conscious choice and that it would have a great effect, which it hasn't. The blackpill overemphasizes the long-term significance of looks by extrapolating from short-term dating. Ultimately, neither looks, personality nor dominance matter particularly, while most of inceldom is likely explained by the extent to which there is pressure and opportunity to [[marriage|marry]], as humans are likely substantially selected to accept their parent's mate choices (see [[mismatchcel]]). | |||
== How personality matters == | |||
The importance of personality can be easily assessed as follows: | The importance of personality can be easily assessed as follows: | ||
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==See | ==See also== | ||
*[[Lookism]] | *[[Lookism]] | ||
*[[Game]] | *[[Game]] | ||