Psychologist and relationship coach Sadia Khan shares videos on her YouTube channel Sadia Psychology to help individuals and couples navigate the complexities of modern relationships. In a recent interview with the We Need to Talk relationship podcast, Sadiya shared her “controversial” view on why “men and women treat attractive women differently.” Read also | Are attractive people considered nicer? Research finds an interesting connection between beauty and kindness
The reaction of men 2 when they see a beautiful woman
An Instagram caption alongside a snippet of her interview read: “This may be a controversial opinion. Do you agree that people, regardless of gender, behave differently when interacting with attractive women?’ In the clip, the host, American TV presenter Paul Carrick Brunson, asked Sadia: “Men react negatively to attractive women. Why is that?”
To this Sadiya replied: “Men automatically diverge in two directions when they see a beautiful woman – either in fear or in hostility. But if their self-esteem is really, really low and they feel really low, they immediately want to give up on her before she can give up on them. They want to find reasons to get rid of their attractiveness. They have to somehow destroy their (the woman’s) self-esteem to understand why they are so attracted to her, to get rid of it (the attraction) because they don’t want to face rejection.”
When asked how women react to attractive women, Sadia said: “When it comes to attractive women, even girls, I think women will always side with whoever they think is the least threatening of them. in terms of appearance. That’s all. Women with high self-esteem are not threatened by attractive women. As a result, when they see an attractive woman online, they either scroll past because they’re not interested, or they support her because they’re not in any danger. If they have low self-esteem, they have to somehow take something away from it.”
What does science say?
According to recent studies, very attractive and very unattractive men show the most hostility towards women. A recent study of men in the UK. found that those who rated themselves as either the most attractive or the least attractive tended to display higher levels of hostility toward women compared to men with an average view of their attractiveness. The study was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.
Researchers have studied the effects of attractiveness for decades. Interestingly, a recent study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization also found that men were more likely to behave more honestly when they believed they were dating a beautiful woman, while the opposite pattern was observed in female participants who displayed “and the punishment of beauty in relation to attractive women”, – write the authors of the study.
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