Why are attractive people's actions misinterpreted as sexual gestures moreso than unattractive people?

Attractive people know they are attractive and tend to project more sex appeal/confidence and therefore are more straight forward in making a move…and most of the time it IS a sexual gesture :)

I think @DrBill nailed it. Wishful thinking.

I don’t think this is a very good assumption. You are probably misinterpreting the study, or misremembering it. There is plenty of evidence that attractive people make more money and get better scores on tests and score better on intelligence tests and are more likely to get elected to office or take leadership roles. But I seriously doubt that their gestures are misinterpreted as sexual moreso than non-attractive people.

@snapdragon24
Attractive individuals are more attuned to their sexual appeal thus displaying a more uncommon confidence than their counterparts, I wouldn’t say they’re trying to be sexual but projecting our own attraction onto them

like what @DrBill and @ETpro are suggesting.

wishful thinking??? I dunno, I never assume that.

But then again if Scarlett Johansson asked me a question and Jabba The Hut asked me the same thing, I may have a different response/reaction.

@wundayatta
Not likely.
Also there is no evidence supporting they score higher or intelligence tests, they do, on average, make more money or rather, they have an easier access to it. As far as elected to leadership roles, not quite, but simply that people are simple minded enough to vote based on appearance rather than substance (as per the Kennedy/Nixon debate)

Take, for.example, daily interactions, if you go to a store and there are two service workers helping you to find an item, one attractive and one unattractive, who are you likely to spend more time interacting with? Most people would spend more time with the former and alot will mistake the high level of attention and customer service she’s giving as an indication of attraction. Whereas with the latter, you would simply notice her doing her job

Because we’re so sexy that when you’re around us it’s all you can think about, thus the innuendo’s….lol

Just in case you can’t tell from my pic, I’m pretty sexy….and funny!

I have never heard of this before. I don’t think I do this, incorrectly assume attractive people’s actions are more sexual. I guess maybe there is an assumption that attractive people have more sex? Or, desire sex? Not sure. I know my husband thinks women who wear thong underwear want sex. Maybe it is along that line of thinking. How someone dresses, carries themselves, does their hair, implies their sexual desire and level?

@JLeslie
Mhm so you would say it is because they’re demeanor is naturally sexual, or that their “aura”, if you will, is sexually toned. I wouldn’t discredit that many attractive do this consciously. I would say for many though, it’s our own latent desire. Or better yet that since they are physically desirable, we associate their actions with sex subconsciously

Yep, wishful thinking. it’s what we’re looking for…
Personally I’ve surely misinterpreted ‘signals’ from very attractive people much more than less attractive people.

@HolographicUniverse Actually, I am more on the side of wishful thinking of the observer.

@JLeslie
Then I agree.
Haha how quickly a question is answered by the “Flutherites”(?)
I’ll think of something challenging next time

You know what, @HolographicUniverse. You don’t know what you’re talking about. But simply google attractiveness and intelligence tests and you’ll find all kinds of evidence that will blow your pet theories out of the water. I could do it for you, but I’ve done it so many times on fluther that I get tired of making the same point over and over and having to look up the same research over and over. You know how that goes. Trust me on this, or don’t. I don’t give a shit. I’ve answered this question and even asked it so many times, we could write a book about it. Just do yourself a favor and look it up.

@wundayatta
I could be wrong but not because i’m being arrogant, but because in all of which I’ve learned… Nothing suggest that intelligence and beauty are Co dependent or that beauty people score, or are more prone to scoring, high on intelligence tests… Just doesn’t work that way my friend and I would challenge any article on Google

Not google. The academic literature. There are plenty of studies. Easy to find. If you think life is fair, it’ll make you sick. As if good looking people didn’t have enough advantages already. Now they have to be smarter?

@wundayatta
Please show me where you’re learning this because that’s absurd.

The most brilliant men to have ever lived were not good looking, there are plenty of good looking people who are bright but they are not dependent upon each other… Beauty is in the genes, intelligence and brain superiority are a bit more complex.

It’s incredibly foolish to think they’re “smarter”

This brief research note aims to estimate the magnitude of the association between general intelligence and physical attractiveness with large nationally representative samples from two nations. In the United Kingdom, attractive children are more intelligent by 12.4 IQ points (r = .381), whereas in the United States, the correlation between intelligence and physical attractiveness is somewhat smaller (r = .126). The association between intelligence and physical attractiveness is stronger among men than among women in both nations. The association remains significant net of a large number of control variables for social class, body size, and health.

Why beautiful people are more intelligent

Those should get you started. I’m too tired to do more.

I would trust @wundayatta he knows of what he speaks.

Be wary of believing everything you read, the fact that people here, who are supposed to be intelligent, believe in this malarkey.

Kovar and Kanazawa studied 35,000 Americans and brits that concluded, on average, beautiful people have higher IQs than ugly people (more common among men)
All articles online pertaining to.this subject revolve around this one study, really quite absurd.
They should know better than to draw mass conclusion from minimal evidence

In addition to that the measurement of “beauty” is arbitrary so are we judging by the golden ratio or people the researchers thought were attractive? Genetically speaking their material would, theoretically,be far superior in certain areas but about 80% of intelligence is hereditary, nothing suggests that there is a link between the two (such is evolutionarily supported)

How many people who attend IVY league colleges and possess higher IQs are actually attractive? The common held belief is that unattractive people are more inclined to be intelligent because the benefit is in exercising this muscle rather than physical development.

Read any online study on intelligence my friend… Do your own research rather than reading ONE article. It’s not about life being fair, it’s about scientific credence.

@HolographicUniverse I can assure you @wundayatta has not read just one article. He is very aware if scientific method. He is very knowladgeable on matters related to the field of sociology; he is one of the go to guys for such questions. But, I will let him defend himself if he wants to bother.

@HolographicUniverse asking a question is to enlist open listening and conversation, not bullying people to your point of view. No longer following.

@JLeslie
Look
I asked a question, he made a statement that challenged me therefore I challenged him back. He can be an “expert” on sociology, btw I myself am not naive of the subject either, but that does not indicate that he is accurate on every thread pertaining to it.

Furthermore his implication transcends the discipline of sociology, but also neurobiology, intelligence and genetics… He made a bold statement, said I didnt know what I was talking about, so I would hope he’s ready for a rather extensive and elaborate discussion

@HolographicUniverse Have at it. All I was trying to do was as someone with over 40,000 points I have some knowledge of the characters on the site who have been here for a while, so I was just reasurring you @wundayatta was not talking off the cuff. You both can argue the studies back and forth of course, I would not interfere in that. It’s not that I always agree with @wundayatta, but I do know when he is talking from opinion or based on facts and studies.

@JLeslie
And i’m inquiring about these “facts” that I have never heard of.

It’s not a knock on him personally, but the studies in which he bases these statements