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** [[Shyness]] or social anxiety, no flirting skills, [[approach anxiety]].<ref name="apostolou2018"></ref> Could be [[mutation]] or slow-life trait. Possibly an adaptation for [[arranged marriage]].<ref name="apostolou2018"></ref> Due to women's passive courtship style, introversion and social anxiety have been found to substantially reduce men's mating success more than women's.<ref>Nordsletten, AE, Larsson, H, Crowley, JJ, Almqvist, C, Lichtenstein, P, & Mataix-Cols, D. 2016. ''Patterns of Nonrandom Mating Within and Across 11 Major Psychiatric Disorders''. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(4), 354. [[https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.3192 Abstract]]</ref> | ** [[Shyness]] or social anxiety, no flirting skills, [[approach anxiety]].<ref name="apostolou2018"></ref> Could be [[mutation]] or slow-life trait. Possibly an adaptation for [[arranged marriage]].<ref name="apostolou2018"></ref> Due to women's passive courtship style, introversion and social anxiety have been found to substantially reduce men's mating success more than women's.<ref>Nordsletten, AE, Larsson, H, Crowley, JJ, Almqvist, C, Lichtenstein, P, & Mataix-Cols, D. 2016. ''Patterns of Nonrandom Mating Within and Across 11 Major Psychiatric Disorders''. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(4), 354. [[https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.3192 Abstract]]</ref> | ||
** Niceness tends to slightly reduce physical attractiveness of men to women and agreeable men have a somewhat lower income,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Personality</ref> which due to women's [[hypergamy|preference for affluent men]] may also explain some of men's low sexual success, however out of the big five personality traits, only extraversion is related to men's [[reproductive success]].<ref>Alvergne, A., Jokela, M., & Lummaa, V. (2010). Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(26), 11745–11750. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001752107</ref> Extroversion may correlate with the willingness and ability to intimidate other males, which one study has shown to predict men's access to females (even more so than women's own choices, which actually had a non-significant impact on men's mating outcomes).<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513817304105</ref> | ** Niceness tends to slightly reduce physical attractiveness of men to women and agreeable men have a somewhat lower income,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Personality</ref> which due to women's [[hypergamy|preference for affluent men]] may also explain some of men's low sexual success, however out of the big five personality traits, only extraversion is related to men's [[reproductive success]].<ref>Alvergne, A., Jokela, M., & Lummaa, V. (2010). Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(26), 11745–11750. doi:10.1073/pnas.1001752107</ref> Extroversion may correlate with the willingness and ability to intimidate other males, which one study has shown to predict men's access to females (even more so than women's own choices, which actually had a non-significant impact on men's mating outcomes).<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513817304105</ref> | ||
** Long education | ** Long education is a significant predictor of early adult virginity,<ref name="lei2021">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.12723</ref> though in one study only for women (long-education [[femcel]]s).<ref name="haydon2013"></ref> The phenomenon of educated women refusing to date down is also discussed in the [[hypergamy]] article, though it is unclear whether this tendency is really due to refusal to date down, or being too busy and hitting the [[wall]], or facing evolutionary mismatches regarding an [[resources for orgasms|exchange of sex in return for resources]]. | ||
** Lower use of alcohol and drugs<ref name="boislard2016"></ref><ref name="haydon2013"></ref> | ** Lower use of alcohol and drugs,<ref name="boislard2016"></ref><ref name="haydon2013"></ref> possibly causally at individual level.<ref name="lei2021"></ref> | ||
** Living with both biological parents<ref name="boislard2016"></ref> | ** Living with both biological parents<ref name="boislard2016"></ref> | ||
** Having a highly educated mother<ref name="boislard2016"></ref> | ** Having a highly educated mother<ref name="boislard2016"></ref> | ||