ITWire reports that a scientific study has found that women find smart and creative men more appealing.
Its authors—Mark D. Prokosch, Richard G. Coss, Joanna E. Scheib, and Shelley A. Blozis, from the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Davis-state in the abstract to their paper that, "Selecting a more intelligent mate often provides women with better access to resources and parental investment for offspring."
However, humans may have also evolved so that women look for intelligence in men in order to produce children that are physically superior-and, thus, use intelligence as a way to unconsciously determine the overall quality of her mate.
The California researchers studied the role of male intelligence with respect to the short-term and long-term preferences of women.
The study even found that for both short-flings and for marriage women prefered smart and creative guys. New Scientistsays it is time for nerds to rejoice. The past couple decades have been good for geeks when it comes to wages so this could have something to do with women wanting smart, creative men. Or, they may have just had some smart women who took part in the study because seriously who doesn't want a smart and creative date?
