If your sweetheart croons, "Honey, I'd still love you if you gained 50 pounds," there's a good chance he's being sincere. Men have been known to find physical appearance more important than personality, but they're also willing to overlook a woman's body shape and weight if she's friendly and likeable.
A University of Central Florida study asked three groups of male college students to rate the attractiveness of female bodies ranging from very thin to obese. One group was given a short list of positive adjectives about each woman, the second received negative adjectives, and the third was given no information. The researchers found that participants given positive personality cues were significantly more accepting—selecting a wider range of "attractive" figures—than those in the other groups.
