What makes stoic and rebellious more attractive than happy and family-oriented?

[Anonymous]

Sorry for using the title as a hook. The real question would be "DO YOU find stoic and rebellious more attractive than happy and family-oriented?"

I had read a study about relations between images and attractiveness, where images were rated by attractiveness by the attracted gender, and correlations were made based on traits like "smiling" "proud" "angry" "stoic" "tattoos" etc.

For guys' responses to images of girls, it mostly made sense. Smiling was one of the most attractive traits, smart-looking, healthy-looking, etc.

For girls' responses to images of guys, it went a different direction. The single least attractive thing a guy could do was smile. The most attractive was stoic or self-prideful and tattoos.

So I'm trying to figure out what would make this:

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would be so much more attractive than this:

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And frankly, I'm concerned about what it means for men.

I also have a Poll for which couple of images you prefer.

First Set

Second Set

[Anonymous]

I think i saw that same study where men who looked proud were rated as more attractive than guys smiling. And smiling girls were rated as more attractive than non smiling girls.

funny thing is when guys ask girls to rate them here, the girls almost always tell them to smile and that they'd look better smiling.

[heatherlu]

We like the idea of a hard outer-shell that we can be the ones to crack and find the nice smiley, private, family orientated guy that's deep inside and just for us.
I thought everyone knew this.

[atomique]

How about stoic/family-oriented.