FYI: Why Are Mean People So Hot?
Mean Girls MOVIECLIPS on YouTubeIt's not that meanies are more physically attractive than everyone else. They're just very good at fooling us. Mean people are attractive because of their meanness, not in spite of it. What I call meanness is more officially known as the "Dark Triad" of personality traits-narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. A recent study shows that people who exhibit these traits are better than people who score lower on the Dark Triad at making themselves appear more attractive. The meanies aren't necessarily more physically attractive than anyone else, they are just better at using what the study calls "adornments" (clothes, makeup and the like) to make themselves seem more appealing. The researchers, Nicholas Holtzman and Michael Strube at Washington University in St. Louis, had their subjects remove all makeup, pull long hair back into a ponytail and don a white T-shirt and grey sweatpants. They were rated on...