You are an intelligent woman and you are attracted to men...How are you doing with them? Have you felt that you intimidate them? It is very likely that you do, but don't worry, come and discover what happens!
Do you scare your potential partners? Is it because you are an intelligent woman? Find out more
The psychologist Lora Park, along with her team at the University of Buffalo; Ariana Young and Paul Eastwick, studied the reactions of men to women who were smarter than them. For that, three different studies were conducted through which they sought to know, when men feel attracted to an intelligent woman and when not.

In one of the studies, some students were asked a hypothetical situation in which a girl performs better and worse than them in a math or English class: How would they feel? What would they think? How would they behave?
Then they were asked how desirable they would see her in terms of a long-term love relationship. The men agreed that they preferred the woman who performed less than they as a romantic companion.
In another study, university students were gathered in a classroom with a woman with higher education and was going to take an exam with them.

She briefly talked with everyone before and after the test.When this is over, the men were asked if they would be interested in dating her; who had perceived her as more intelligent, saw her less attractive than those who, after speaking, had considered that she was not as intelligent as they were.
So what is it? Men are more attracted to more intelligent and competent women than they are, but only from a distance ; when the relationship is closer, men prefer those women who are less intelligent for a relationship.
In the third experiment, participants should indicate how masculine they felt in a situation where a woman in the one that had interest, surpassed them in intelligence.

We see then that if it is true that sometimes men feel intimidated by intelligent women, somehow the they find less attractive because they compare with them and this damages their ego, making them feel less masculine.That is why prefer beauty over intelligence , while women can be a bit more flexible when choosing a partner; either attractive but not intelligent, intelligent but not attractive, or intelligent and attractive, since they are always clear about their interest in them.
Fortunately not all men are like that ; do not worry if you are a heterosexual female, there are many men who are attracted to an intelligent and successful woman; they admire her, respect her and love her, because they are aware of her qualities and know that together they can help each other grow as people.
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