Sadia Khan, psychologist and relationship coach share videos on her YouTube channel, Sadia Psychology, to help individuals and couples navigate the complexities of modern relationships. In a recent interview on relationship podcast We Need To Talk, Sadia shared her “controversial” view on why “attractive women are treated differently” by men and women. Read also | Are attractive people considered nicer? Study reveals interesting link between beauty and kindness

The 2 reactions of men when they see a beautiful woman

The Instagram caption alongside a clip of her interview read: “This may be a controversial take. Do you agree that people, regardless of gender, act differently when interacting with attractive women?” In the clip, the host, American television personality Paul Carrick Brunson, asked Sadia: “Men react negatively to attractive women. Why?”

To this, Sadia replied: “Men automatically go in two directions when they see a beautiful woman: either they are amazed, or they enter into hostility. But when their self-esteem is very, very low and they feel really depressed about themselves, they immediately want to reject her before she can reject them. They want to find reasons to get rid of their attractions. They have to somehow erase their (woman’s) self-esteem to understand why they are so attracted to her, get rid of it (the attraction) because they don’t want to face the rejection.

When asked how women react to attractive women, Sadia replied, “What I find in women, when it comes to attractive women, even women who are girls, is that they will always side with those they find least threatening in terms of appearance. That’s it. Women with high self-esteem are not threatened by attractive women. As a result, when they see an attractive woman online, they either pass her by because they’re not interested, or they support her because they’re not threatened. When they have low self-esteem, they have to somehow take something or the other away from it.

What does science say?

According to recent research, both very attractive and very unattractive men show the greatest hostility toward women. THE recent study men in the UK. found that those who perceive themselves as most attractive or least attractive tend to show higher levels of hostility toward women than men with average opinions of their attractiveness. The research was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Researchers have been studying the effects of attractiveness for decades. Interestingly, a recent study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, also showed that men were more likely to behave more honestly when they thought they were interacting with a beautiful woman, while the opposite pattern was observed among female participants, who exhibited ” a beauty penalty for attractive women.” “, write the authors of the study.

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