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Men Who Compliment a Woman's Appearance Using Metaphorical Language: Associations with Creativity, Masculinity, Intelligence and Attractiveness

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, December 2017
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Title
Men Who Compliment a Woman's Appearance Using Metaphorical Language: Associations with Creativity, Masculinity, Intelligence and Attractiveness
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, December 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02185
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Authors

Zhao Gao, Qi Yang, Xiaole Ma, Benjamin Becker, Keshuang Li, Feng Zhou, Keith M. Kendrick

Abstract

Language may have evolved as a signal of mental fitness. However, it remains unclear what language form and topic men use to covertly signal mate quality. In this study 69 men created compliments to impress unfamiliar women they chose to either date or work with and provided hand scans to compute 2D4D ratio as a proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure and masculinity indicator. Compliments were coded in terms of form (literal vs. metaphorical) and topic (women's appearance vs. non-appearance), with metaphorical ones being subsequently rated by 114 women for psycholinguistic features, indices of intelligence and willingness to have a romantic relationship with the author. Results showed that in a dating context, men produced more metaphorical form compliments targeting appearance compared to the working context and they were associated with men's art creativity and negatively with 2D4D ratio (i.e., positively with masculinity). Women preferred establishing a romantic relationship with a higher proportion of the men producing metaphorical compliments in a dating than a working context. Furthermore, in the dating but not the working context, women perceived men producing such compliments as being more intelligent, and importantly this correlated with the men's actual verbal intelligence. Overall, findings suggest that men may use metaphorical language compliments targeting women's appearance in a dating context to signal covertly their mate quality.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Other 3 6%
Unspecified 3 6%
Other 15 28%
Unknown 13 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 31%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Unspecified 3 6%
Linguistics 2 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Other 12 22%
Unknown 14 26%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 May 2024.
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#47
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