Risk-taking men 'not attractive'

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Who knew women preferred men who had concave utility functions?

[phk]

Die in a fire idiotic troll.

[phk]

What does this have to do with teh economy.

Behavioral/Micro topic.

For a better read up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_utility_hypothesis
and a useful paper.
http://econ.ucsd.edu/~mmachina/papers/Machina_Science_Article.pdf

Didn't I mention concave utility (which imply risk aversion) functions in the initial post?

[phk]

THIS CANNOT BE!

Yeah, I would have thought the opposite to be true considering how society glorifies machoism, but it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective assuming utility of risk could be determined perhaps by genetic and/or psychological factors and heritable.

Women might themselves find greater preference for men on the lower end of the risk-return spectrum and a lower taste for variance.

[phk]

THIS CANNOT BE!

Yeah, I would have thought the opposite to be true considering how society glorifies machoism, but it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective assuming utility of risk could be determined perhaps by genetic and/or psychological factors.

Women might themselves find greater preference for men on the lower end of the risk-return spectrum and a lower taste for variance.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1278236