Why among the People You Date the Most Attractive Ones Tend to Be Jerks
Or why it’s so hard to find the perfect romantic partner
Do the same genes that make you beautiful also make you into a douchebag? Or is it more a nurture thing, with people who have been coveted all their life eventually becoming arrogant and mean?
If you’ve spent any time drowning yourself in the dating pool in the search for that special person, you might have noticed that there seems to be a correlation between how attractive someone is and how much of a jerk they are. And the correlation seems to be positive, meaning, the more attractive someone is, the more likely they seem to be jerks.
What’s more, this correlation not only seems to be true for physical attractiveness, but also for other attractiveness measures such as wealth and status, with rich people who are high up on the social ladder also tending to be more obnoxious.
Now, of course that’s not always true and there are plenty of exceptions. Still, in general, there seems to be this trend.
