9 qualities that make others dislike us

1. Lack of sleep

Lack of sleep makes us look less attractive. In 2010, scientists conducted an experiment.: photographed people who slept at least 8 hours the night before, and people who did not sleep 31 hours.

Other participants rated the photographs according to different criteria. In their opinion, sleep deprived people looked tired, unattractive, sick, sad.

2. Anger

In 2014, the following study was conducted in China. Men and women looked at photographs of people with neutral facial expressions. The first group of photographs was accompanied by the captions "kind" and "honest", the second - "evil" and "vile", the rest of the photographs were without captions. The participants in the experiment called the most unattractive people on whose photographs were the caption "evil" or "vile".

3. Tightness

It is a well-known fact: in a strong posture - with a straight back, open shoulders - you start to feel more confident. Conversely, when you slouch, sit tight, you lose confidence in yourself and your strength.

But body language also affects how other people perceive you. An example is an experiment that was conducted in 2016. …

Scientists have created several profiles of men and women in the dating app. In the first group of profiles, pictures of men and women were laid out in clamped poses: with dropped shoulders, crossed arms and legs, stooped. In another group, the same men and women were photographed in open poses, raising their hands in a V, reaching for something.

The results showed that users of the app found profiles with photos in open positions more attractive and more often asked them out on a date.

4. Stress

In a 2013 study, heterosexual men perceived women with high cortisol levels as less attractive.

This is presumably due to the fact that high levels of the stress hormone adversely affect overall health and fertility.

5. Too much happiness or pride on your face

It turns out that girls don't like guys who are too happy, and guys don't like girls who look too proud.

In 2011, scientists conducted such an experiment.: Different people were shown photographs of members of the opposite sex and asked how attractive the people in the photographs seemed to them.

Men rated women as most attractive when they looked happy in the picture, and less attractive when they appeared proud. Women, on the other hand, gave the highest marks to men who were considered proud and the lowest to those who looked overly happy.

6. Lack of sense of humor

2009 study. proved that if you don't know how to joke, or you have an average sense of humor, then you will be less desirable for the opposite sex.

Gender does not matter: a bad sense of humor makes men and women equally unattractive.

7. Laziness

A series of experiments., published in 2004, showed that attractiveness largely depends on the willingness to come to the rescue.

The researchers asked students during a 6-week archeology course to rate each other's personal qualities and attractiveness at the beginning and end of the course.

When the results were analyzed, it turned out that students who were lazy during their studies, later received bad reviews, even if they were considered very attractive at the beginning of the course.

8. Smell

According to scientific evidence, when we are looking for a partner, we are attracted to people who are genetically different from us, but not too much.

For research in 2006. Scientists selected heterosexual couples and asked them to answer the question of how much they are passionate about their partner and with how many people they have had sexual intercourse during this relationship.

At the same time, the scientists took DNA samples from the participants' mouths and sent them to a laboratory for testing. In particular, they wanted to compare their major histocompatibility complexes - the genes of the immune system.

The more similar were the partners' histocompatibility complexes, the less they attracted each other and the more often they looked for love on the side.

Another interesting thing was discovered during our research: we avoid people whose scent is too different from ours.

9. Dishonesty

Lack of honesty repels both sexes and is the main reason for rejection.

In research. In 2006, subjects were asked to read the characteristics of men and women who were assigned different traits: smart and stupid, dependent and independent, honest and dishonest. Participants were then asked to self-rate the photographs of these people and indicate how attractive they find them.

As it turned out, honesty is the only trait that affects the emergence of sympathy. If we know that a person was dishonest towards us, we cease to like him.