Cotton polo shirts, T-shirts with the names of museums or with university logos on them, plain and tailored looking pants, knee-length and above the knee skirts and clean, neat, clean-cut and sensible leather shoes/sandals are all nice.
Yes, smarter people look more intelligent. But not all people – just men. Kleisner discovered that “both men and women were able to accurately evaluate the intelligence of men by viewing facial photographs.” But strangely, “no relationship between perceived intelligence and IQ was found for women.”
Faces that are perceived as highly intelligent are rather prolonged with a broader distance between the eyes, a larger nose, a slight upturn to the corners of the mouth, and a sharper, pointing, less rounded chin.
The larger the pupils, the higher the intelligence, as measured by tests of reasoning, attention and memory.
Sapiosexuality means that a person is sexually attracted to highly intelligent people, so much so that they consider it to be the most important trait in a partner.
Unfortunately, a new study claims this might not be the case -- and actually, the more attractive someone is, the more likely we are to perceive them as intelligent. Researchers found that facial cues we all use to assess someone's health or intelligence are overshadowed by an "attractiveness halo".
“A highly intelligent person is one who is flexible in their thinking and can adapt to changes, they think before they speak or act, and they're able to effectively manage their emotions,” Dr. Catherine Jackson, licensed clinical psychologist and board certified neurotherapist, tells Bustle.
According to professor Bainbridge, men are only attracted to symmetrical features as they indicate a potential partner is young, healthy and has stable genes. The findings show that men value brains over beauty as they consider intelligence to be the most attractive quality in a long term partner.
Key points
Smart people tend to like fewer people than less intelligent people, and have a tendency to only like other intelligent people. The association between intelligence and likability is strongest at the beginning of a relationship—suggesting that, over time, smarts become less important.
His general fitness factor (f-factor) model suggests that intelligence and physical attractiveness are positively correlated across individuals because both reflect the quality of their genes and developmental stability.
You Believe Intelligence Is Sexier Than a Beach Bod
Sapiosexuals value an intelligent mind over a physically attractive body.
Most psychologists now believe that there are no significant sex differences in general intelligence, although ability in particular types of intelligence does appear to vary slightly on average. While some test batteries show slightly greater intelligence in males, others show slightly greater intelligence in females.
Sapiosexuality. In popular culture, an individual who finds high levels of intelligence the most sexually attractive attribute in a person is known as a sapiosexual (or a sapiophile) (Peckham, 2012).
Intelligence was the number one trait associated with brown, the most common eye color in the U.S., by 34 percent of respondents.
Scientists at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, have apparently found a hitherto unobserved link between eye-colour and levels of intelligence. Blue-eyed people, they claim, are more studious, more strategic, more focused, and thus out-perform brown-eyed people in exams.
The colour of one's eye may be the key to success. American scientists who conducted some tests concluded that brown-eyed people performed better at reaction time, but those with lighter or blue eyes appeared to be better strategic thinkers, the Daily Mail reported.
According to the results, both men and women view the eyes as the most important facial feature. The other highly rated facial features included attractive hair and lips, while the nose was reported as one of the least important features.
They found that with targets who were psychologically distant, men were more attracted to women who displayed more intelligence than they had. By comparison, with targets who were psychologically near, men were less attracted to women who were smarter than they were. Through their research, Park et al.
According to Fisher's numbers, men desire smart, strong, successful women; 87 percent of men said they would date a woman who was more intellectual than they were, who was better educated, and who made considerably more money than they did, while 86 percent said they were in search of a woman who was confident and self ...