<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">When she's hot & he's not there's better shot at happiness</span> BY JO PIAZZA DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, March 26th 2008, 4:00 AM <span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:100%">Corkery/News</span> He may be a dog, ladies, but he'll keep you happy. A new study reveals that women who wed men who are uglier than they will have a happier marriage than those with a more attractive mate. In couples where the wife is the hotter one, both parties seem to be content, found a study of 82 newlywed duos in the Journal of Family Psychology. "Both spouses tended to behave more positively when wives were more attractive than their husbands and more negatively when husbands were more attractive than their wives," said the study by UCLA's Benjamin Karney. Karney also found that it doesn't matter how much better looking the wife is than the husband - just that there is a discrepancy. From Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, beautiful women have been marrying less attractive men through the ages. Consider Howard Stern and his fiancée, Beth Ostrosky; Christina Aguilera and her geeky husband, Jordan Bratman, or Sienna Miller's latest fling with homely actor Rhys Ifans. According to the study, it is evolution that dictates that physical attractiveness of long-term mates is more important to men than to women. Men are looking for a way to carry on their genes and see physical attractiveness as an indicator of strong genetics. "Because physical attractiveness is less important to women, in contrast, relative attractiveness may only affect them through its effect on their husbands," the study says. ....</div> http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/...better_sho.html
