Sunday, April 17, 2005

It seemed to work for Howard Hughes!

Kurt Kleiner writing for New Scientist reports that a recent study about risk-takers found:

Men thought women would be impressed by pointless gambles, but women in fact preferred cautious men (Evolution and Human Behaviour, vol 26, p 171).
Well, in the end the result is the same . . .

Men say they prefer their same-sex friends to be risk-takers, and women prefer high-status males. "So if he has higher status among other men, women might like him for his status, even though they don't like the risk-taking in itself," Farthing says.

Read the short article here.

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