Women love narcissists, manipulators and psychopaths, new research reveals
Apparently women are more likely to go for blokes with a 'dark triad' of personality traits when on the lookout for love
WOMEN cannot resist a bighead, say experts.
Vain fellas like Portugal footie ace Cristiano Ronaldo, 31, are a turn-on.
Bad boys such as Christian Bale’s character Patrick Bateman in movie American Psycho are also a hit.
It is because women go for blokes with a “dark triad” of personality traits.
The three traits are narcissism (self love), Machiavellianism (coldness and manipulation) and psychopathy (anti-social behaviours).
Tests showed men with the traits were more successful at speed dating but any flings tend to be short.
Emanuel Jauk, of the University of Graz, Austria, said the traits are linked to “pursuit of short-term mating strategies”.
In tests, men were drawn to physically attractive, narcissistic women, he said.
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