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What Men Admire in Women

There are many kinds of real and alleged personalities. Perhaps one of the commonest and the most unconscious grouping is

1.People I like, and2.People I do not like

REMEMBER:REMEMBER:

•no matter what you do to no matter what you do to improve your personality, there improve your personality, there always will be someone who always will be someone who does not like you. You cannot does not like you. You cannot mold a personality that will be mold a personality that will be uniformly desirable in uniformly desirable in everybody’s eyes.everybody’s eyes.

What Men Admire in Women 1.Neatness and cleanliness 2.Intelligence 3.Couresy and good manners 4.Cheerfulness 5.Co-operativeness 6.A good figure 7.Smartness in clothing

8. Sociability—the ability to mix9. Beauty10.An even temper11.Trustworthiness and dependability12.Unselfishness13.Loyalty14.Health 15.Ability to cook and keep house

What Women Admire in Men 1.Neatness and cleanliness 2.Good manners and courtesy 3. Cheerfulness and pleasantness 4.Ambition to succeed in life 5. Intelligence 6. Honesty and uprightness 7. A sense of humor

• 8.Thoughfulness and consideration of others

• 9.Good health• 10.Conversational ability• 11.Dependability • 12.Seriousness of purpose• 13.Generosity• 14.Broad-mindness• 15.Handsome features

Look at the tow lists again and notice hoe similar they are. Four of

the first five traits are identical:

• neatness and cleanliness,

• good manners and courtesy, cheerfulness,

• Intelligence

Don’t these lists give us a pretty good idea of the sort of personality people admire?

Of the kind we should want to have?

• Inasmuch as most of us are not particularly pretty or handsome, the ranking of these items should be encouraging. The women placed handsome features in 15th,and the men rated beauty 9th. Beauty, handsome, and perfect physique are clearly not the most important factors in personal attractiveness.

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