The Science Behind It All: Why Women Tend To Fall For Bad Boys
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Women purport to prefer nice guys, but getting their hearts broken by bad boys – these stories are a dime a dozen. It’s likely you would have heard of a friend who fell for a James Dean-lookalike, or perhaps you have personally experienced it. What is it about bad boys that make them so irresistible?
Not everyone falls for this type, of course, but there are enough examples that it’s worth examining. Could there be a logical, even scientific explanation behind this phenomenon? As it turns out, there are actually a few.
The ‘Pathological = Sexy’ survey
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A 2015 study from the Evolution & Human Behavior journal shows that pathological people have more lifetime partners. In a nutshell, people with neurotic, impulsive, obsessive-compulsive, and rule-breaking behaviours tend to date more and get into relationships more. Close to 1,000 men and women with a spectrum of pathological behaviours, from none to severe, were studied.
A couple of interesting observations to highlight: One, lead researcher Gutiérrez says that obsessive-compulsive males were more successful with the ladies. He attributed this to the group’s high income level, as men with obsessive-compulsive behaviours made nearly twice as much as less obsessive study participants. Another was that neurotic women were more successful than their less neurotic counterparts in securing themselves a man.
It would be premature to take these findings as gospel truth though. As this study was a combination of self-reporting studies and interviews, there is the possibility of participants over-reporting their numbers to appear more attractive. After all, dishonesty is a pathological behaviour too.
The ‘My hormones made me do it’ study
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Kristina Durante, a researcher at the University of Texas at San Antonio, studied women’s reactions towards men during low and high fertility periods to see if there were any differences in their choices. Spoiler alert: Women who were ovulating wanted sexy bad boys.
This 2012 study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, had women viewing online dating profiles, and interacting with male actors who played the stereotypical roles of either a sexy bad boy or a dependable nice guy.
In both cases, women near ovulation significantly preferred physically sexier cads over obviously more dependable males, and also believed that sexier males made better fathers and partners. Conclusion? Ovulating women have their judgment clouded by the primal instinct of sex appeal, or in modern terms, they have their “ovulation goggles” on.
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Do women like stereotypically dark, mysterious men because they are more good-looking? Or perhaps dark, mysterious men claim to have more conquests because they inflate their numbers?
To dispel these variables, Gregory Louis Carter from the University of Durham studied the preferences of 128 women for men through online questionnaires, and found that women are significantly more attracted to men with “Dark Triad” personalities, which are narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism (the inclination to deceive and manipulate). This is regardless of physical appearance. Women actually prefer men with dark traits.
There are two ways of looking at this. Either women tend to be mesmerised by these personalities because it’s so unusual, or men with these personalities are good at persuasion – that is, manipulating women into liking them.
The ‘I need emotion to feel alive’ theory
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This one isn’t exactly a study, but more of a hypothesis. Anyway, the theory goes that women tend to have more feminine energy, which responds to emotion. In comparison, men tend to have more masculine energy, which responds to logic and reason.
For women, this means that the more emotion someone makes them feel, be it positive or negative, excitement or pain, the more pull women feel towards that person. In other words, women feed on emotion to feel alive (so the theory goes). Unfortunately, even though the emotion can be negative, oftentimes, she would rather choose this over someone who doesn’t make her feel anything.
These are just some of the studies and theories that attempt to shed light on the elusive science of attraction. It’s useful to know that biology may influence us to make the choices that we would not rationally make. On the flip side, it does take away some of the romance of falling in love. Choose wisely! You have been warned.
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It no longer needs highlighting that Filipinos are now doing the right thing and embracing the leadership of President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte with open minds and a renewed hope in real change being implemented over the next six years. The reason Filipinos seem more inclined to take the journey together this time is that Duterte had marked his campaign not just with mere symbols of that call for unity but with hard evidence that he has walked in the shoes of Filipinos from all sectors of society. Just by being from Mindanao provides him a fresh lens with which to regard the no-win politics that infest Imperial Manila. Mindanao and the Visayas, after all, is where much of the internal strife amongst the Philippines’ various ethnic and cultural groups emanate and having been in the thick of all that makes Duterte all the more qualified to talk about “unity”.
In that sense, the unity that Duterte represents can be considered to be different from the notion of “unity” espoused by the traditional politicians that came to rule Manila before him. Traditional “unity”, to most, had more to do with unity across partisan camps. I’d like to think Duterte’s unity takes the partisan out of its equation and focuses on the Nation.
Key to this renewed sense of unity is the eradication of all symbols and relics of the old political order that fragmented the nation. Standing out amongst those relics is the Yellow brand. At no time in the Philippines’ history has its politics been as polarised as it was in the last 30 years since that “revolution” in 1986. The notion that the EDSA “people power” revolt that “toppled” the regime of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos was a revolution to begin with has all but been debunked.
In a short Facebook post, Netizen Kris Andres handily summed up the Philippines’ collective Eureka! moment that diagnosed the national delusion of the last 30 years and explains why, after billions of pesos “invested” by the Liberal Party in the candidacy of Mar Roxas and Leni Robredo, only a colossal loss and a mere tie with a Marcos respectively could be mustered:
Apparently, the numerous Cory and Ninoy monuments, the pre-school books glorifying the Aquino name, the annual People Power anniversary, the Cory musical, and the P500 bill are not enough to remind the Filipinos about Martial Law.
But maybe that’s the problem. The Aquinos made it all about them.
And so now, Filipinos know: there was no revolution in 1986 — only the spectacle of a richly-landed Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan seizing and holding hostage a big chunk of the national consciousness and colouring it Yellow. The result of this was a deep crack forming across the Philippines’ political landscape dividing the discourse between the Yellow folks and their-self ascribed “civil society” and that of all the rest. This is the legacy that outgoing President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III leaves his country who, for much if not all of his term as President, upheld the Yellow colours of his party over and above the national colours. Thus, the Aquinos and the Liberal Party leave a deeply-divided society that Duterte is, we all hope, cut out for the role of unifying.
Back in 2011, there already had been a call for President BS Aquino and his ilk to ditch that Yellow symbolism and adopt the national colours. He was than as he remains now, after all, the president of all Filipinos. The call, as we now see, was unheeded and was, like many other things about the Second Aquino Administration, a victim of BS Aquino’s stubborn devotion to an obsolete philosophy.
VP candidate Leni Robredo flashes the 'Laban' sign while wearing a Yellow shirt.
VP candidate Leni Robredo flashes the ‘Laban’ sign while wearing a Yellow shirt.
Thus the healing begins. Yellow has come to symbolise a national cancer that Filipinos now see as potentially curable. The cure to what has been called the “jaundiced” national politics of the last 30 years has, even this early, taken effect. Observers have even noticed Liberal Party Vice Presidential candidate Leni Robredo starting to distance herself from the Yellow brand and start wearing more neutral colours.
Having provided a new path of thinking, the task at hand is clear for the new president. The main challenge for Duterte is to apply his no-nonsense style of governance as mayor to a scale and strategic level befitting that of a Chief Executive. This challenge can be encapsulated in the following truism:
Mayors go after snatchers and pickpockets. Presidents go after pork barrel thieves and election cheats.
Likewise, as president, unity is now all about what is good for all Filipinos. There are bigger fish to fry and less time to cook them. But that is what Duterte, presumably, signed up for.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine leader Benigno Aquino III had called this week's election a referendum on his "straight path" style of reformist governance, but his candidate lost by millions of votes to a shoot-from-the-lip mayor.
And if the vice presidency goes to a son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted 30 years ago by a revolt led by Aquino's mother, that will cloud the political legacy of a family that has been regarded as a bulwark against authoritarianism.
An unofficial tally of Monday's votes shows Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. closely trailing Aquino-backed Rep. Leni Robredo in a cliffhanger vice presidential race.
Aquino campaigned against tough-talking Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who has won the presidency by a wide margin based on the unofficial count, and Bongbong Marcos, warning both could be looming dictators. He said they could set back the country's democracy and economic momentum achieved in his six-year term, which ends in June.
Aquino, who was constitutionally barred from seeking a second term, remains popular — indeed, his approval ratings are among the highest for a departing Philippine president in the post-Marcos dictatorship era. But the rise of Duterte, whose tough talk has reinforced perceptions that he could become a strongman, is a reality check on the extent of public dissatisfaction and perceived failures during the reformist Aquino's watch.
The disaffection may have been felt mostly by the growing middle class, said Julio Teehankee, dean of a college dealing with political science and international relations at Manila's De La Salle University.
Under Aquino, the government expanded a program that provides cash to the poorest of the poor in exchange for commitments by parents to ensure their children would attend classes and receive government health care. Big business, meanwhile, benefited from government partnership deals that allowed them to finance major infrastructure projects such as highways and airports for long-term gain.
"The middle-class," Teehankee said, "felt shortchanged."
He said they must endure maddening traffic by land and air, infrastructure problems, taxes that are high relative to the Philippines' neighbors and even what's known as the "bullet drop racket." Many travelers have accused Manila airport personnel of slipping bullets into their luggage, then extorting money from them in exchange for not being criminally prosecuted.
Aquino won a landslide victory in 2010 on a promise to fight corruption and poverty, which afflicts more than a fourth of the more than 100 million Filipinos. But his victory was also seen as a protest vote due to widespread exasperation with the scandals that rocked the presidency of his predecessor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who is currently detained on corruption charges.
The expectations were high and while Aquino moved against corruption — detaining Arroyo and three powerful senators over corruption allegations — and initiated anti-poverty programs, the problems remain daunting.
Critics have also pounded on what they say were his administration's bungling of a number of crises, including a Manila bus hostage crisis that ended with the shooting deaths of eight Chinese tourists from Hong Kong by a disgruntled police officer, and delays in recovery efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
Aquino backed Mar Roxas in the presidential election. Roxas served as the president's transport secretary and later interior secretary, leading departments that were regularly criticized.
On the campaign trail, Aquino and Roxas highlighted how the government's anti-corruption drive and other reforms allowed the Philippines to register one of the highest growth rates in Asia from 2010 to last year. Once regarded as the sick man of Asia, they said the country is now considered "Asia's bright star."
Duterte won voters with promises to wipe out crime and corruption within six months, although police officials say that would be almost impossible to accomplish.
If Bongbong Marcos becomes vice president, that might be a more bitter pill for Aquino to swallow.
Last February, Aquino evoked horrific memories of Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship in a speech marking the anniversary of the 1986 "people power" revolt led by his mother, Corazon Aquino. His father, anti-Marcos politician Benigno Aquino Jr., was assassinated in 1983 while under military custody at the Manila airport, which now bears his name.
The younger Aquino railed against Marcos Jr.'s refusal to clearly apologize for the brutal rights violations and plunder that happened during his father's strongman rule.
"This is not about the Aquinos versus the Marcoses," Aquino said at the anniversary. "It is clear to me that this is about right versus wrong."
Frustrated by descriptions of the Marcos era as a golden age, Aquino countered that it was "one of the most painful chapters of our history."
Bonifacio Ilagan, an activist who was detained and tortured during the dictatorship, said Filipinos still cherish the power they demonstrated to remove Marcos in 1986, but were disappointed that expectations of a better life and an easing of the deep inequality that has long plagued Philippine society hasn't been realized three decades after the revolt.
If Marcos Jr. wins, "It will really be a slap, a complete repudiation of the 1986 revolution," Ilagan said.
The successive presidencies after the dictator failed to institutionalize widespread hatred over the abuses and plunder under Marcos by including them and the lessons comprehensively, for example, in school teachings, he said. Criminal cases against the dictator and some of his family members were far from over, he said.
Duterte has declared he would allow Ferdinand Marcos' remains — now displayed in a glass coffin in his northern hometown of Batac — to be buried in the national heroes' cemetery. That is vehemently opposed by nationalists and activists like Ilagan, whose activist sister remains missing since she disappeared in the early 1970s while helping in the anti-Marcos movement.
If the hero's burial for Marcos proceeds, Ilagan said, "that will be a very, very sad day." 
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DUMOBLE Ang Lamang ni Duterte! 45.6% na po siya sa Pinakahuling Survey!
Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte withstood a last minute desperate attack by the administration party and the mainstream media and showed his mass support when an estimated 1.3-million people gathered for his final rally at the Rizal Park (Luneta) Saturday night.
A final independent survey conducted by a foreign political monitoring group showed that the fiery political leader from the South has soared higher posting 45.6% stretching his lead by 26.3% over second placer Grace Poe Llamanzares who only got 19.3%.
Vice President Jejomar Binay scored 13.5% while administration candidate Manuel Roxas III plummeted to 12.7% and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago was at 3.8%.
Political observers believe that Roxas' dramatic drop from 2nd place tied with Poe to 4th in the final survey could be a result of his public appeal to Poe to withdraw and join forces with him to defeat Duterte.
"Hindi pa nga pumutok ang kanyon, surrender na," a retired general I talked with at the Manila Hotel yesterday commented.
(The cannons have not exploded yet but already he (Roxas) has already surrendered.)
Roxas' appeal for a unity team with Poe and Binay was considered a virtual acceptance of defeat in the face of the unstoppable rise of Duterte whose numbers continued to improve even in the face of the vicious attacks launched by Senator Antonio Trillanes.
Duterte showed his strength when an estimated 1.3-million supporters showed up at the Rizal Park (Luneta) last night for his Miting de Avance, the traditional final rally which caps two months of campaigning.
As in his previous engagements, Duterte was consistent with his message assuring Filipinos that there would be peace and security in the country and that food will be "available and affordable" for the Filipino people.
Duterte said his governance will revolve around the interest and welfare of the Filipino people.
He also promised Filipinos that he will be tough on drugs and criminality and that corruption would stop under his Presidency.
"I will send a text message to all officials in government containing four letters S-T-O-P," he said adding that those who will not stop stealing people's money will be made to answer for the crime they commit.
Duterte also warned policemen involved in criminality and drugs to reform or "I will kill you."
In his two-hour final speech peppered with his usual green and funny jokes highlighted by his imitation of Binay's mannerisms and language during the last Presidential debate, Duterte promised the Filipino people that they will own the country again.
"This country is controlled by only about 40 rich families. These are the families who control the lives of over 100 million Filipinos," Duterte said.
Duterte promised that under his Presidency, he will level the playing field saying that the ordinary Filipinos will have equal opportunities as the rich and that upright rich businessmen will be protected from harassment of corrupt government officials.
At one time during his speech, he touched the Philippine flag beside him and said that he will unite the country under one flag.
"We will be one nation under one flag," he said as he promised that he will talk to the different rebel groups in the country - the New People's Army, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Moro National Liberation Front - to end decades of conflict in the country.
"We have to talk. We cannot continue killing each other," he said.
Duterte earlier said that on the first day of his Presidency, he will immediately declare a ceasefire with the Communist rebels and restart peace negotiations.
Duterte returned to Davao City late last night for a final rally in the city which he transformed from a Killing Fields of Communist insurgents in the early 1980s to become one of the World's Safest Cities.
He is expected to cast his vote in Davao City tomorrow.
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MoiMay 8, 2016 at 4:14 PM
God bless the Philippines
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UnknownMay 8, 2016 at 4:25 PM
Inshallah.. Inshallah.. Allahuakbar!!!!
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The OrthodoxMay 8, 2016 at 4:28 PM
Duterte really is the next President of the Philipppines...
NATIONAL CHANGE IS NOW AT HAND WITH DUTERTE.
But True Change should start from within ourselves...within each of us.
GODSPEED FILIPINOS!
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AnonymousMay 8, 2016 at 6:22 PM
correct.
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