“The co-authors and I each have a general interest in Evolutionary Psychology. Given this interest we are also interested in mating; especially how males and females may look for different characteristics in a mate,” said study author Curtis S. Dunkel of Western Illinois University.

The researchers examined data collected from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a long-term study which has tracked about 10,000 men and women from 1957 to 2011. They found that a woman’s physical attractiveness predicted her husband’s intelligence. In other words, more physically attractive women tended to have more intelligent husbands.

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