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Researcher Exclusively Explains Why Female “Psychopaths” Are Less Likely To Wear Makeup
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Researcher Exclusively Explains Why Female “Psychopaths” Are Less Likely To Wear Makeup

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Female “psychopaths” are less likely to wear makeup, a new study found. Scientists think that this may be a result of their “assertiveness” and their lack of need to enhance their appearance to others. Scholars from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, asked 1,410 Brazilian women about their cosmetics usage.

According to the study, published on August 16 in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, thousands of women were asked about their use of makeup across different social contexts, including at home, on a first date, in a business meeting, and at the gym.

Highlights
  • Female psychopaths are less likely to wear makeup due to assertiveness and lack of need to enhance appearance to others.
  • 1,410 Brazilian women were surveyed about makeup usage and Dark Triad traits, linking high narcissism to more makeup and high psychopathy to less.
  • Psychopathy traits like charm and persuasiveness may allow women to achieve desired outcomes without using makeup.
  • The ratio of male to female psychopathy could be as high as 1.2:1, much higher than previously thought.
  • Female psychopaths may be a larger threat to business and society than previously suspected due to underestimated incidence levels.

The women were subsequently asked to complete surveys to measure their “Dark Triad” traits, consisting of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.

As a result, the women who wore regularly lots of makeup scored highly on the narcissism scale. Meanwhile, women who scored highly on the psychopathy scale were less likely to put on lipstick, eyeliner, and blush in all social situations.

Female “psychopaths” are less likely to wear makeup, a new study found

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A psychopathy test is a tool used to assess antisocial behavior and traits that may indicate psychopathy. 

Psychopathy is a serious mental disorder that’s characterized by a lack of empathy, poor behavioral controls, and antisocial tendencies. People with psychopathy may also be manipulative, charming, and exploitative.

Moreover, psychopathy is not an official diagnosis, but it is a term that is sometimes used to describe certain behaviors. According to WebMD, doctors use the term “antisocial personality disorder” (ASPD) instead of psychopathy when making an official diagnosis.

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“We want to clarify that the study highlights how personality traits, such as extroversion, narcissism, or subclinical psychopathy, influence makeup usage, but it doesn’t imply that individuals with certain traits should or should not use makeup,” Anthonieta Looman Mafra, one of the researchers involved in the study told Bored Panda in an email.

The postdoctoral researcher in experimental psychology at the University of São Paulo further explained: “Every personality trait has a range of influences, both positive and negative, and the study simply explores how these traits correlate with behaviors like makeup application across different social contexts.” 

She continued: “Specifically, the findings indicate that makeup usage varies across personality traits in nuanced ways. 

Scientists think that this may be a result of their “assertiveness” 

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“For instance, while narcissism was linked to higher makeup usage, psychopathy was associated with lower usage. However, this doesn’t imply moral judgments about these traits or makeup habits.”

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Dr. Mafra added: “When we think about psychopathy traits, we always tend to remember the negative ones, such as: ruthlessness, fearlessness, mental toughness, and a lack of conscience and empathy. 

“However, there are other traits that are positively linked to psychopathy: charm, persuasiveness, assertiveness, procrastination avoidance, focus on the positive, don’t take things personally, good acting under pressure, and don’t blame themselves if things don’t go as planned.”

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According to the researcher, the reason why female “psychopaths” are less likely to wear makeup may be related to their charm, persuasiveness, and assertiveness.

“[This] may lead them to act in a way that makes people behave as they want, without needing to use makeup since makeup is one of the tools used to enhance others’ perceptions,” Dr. Mafra concluded.

According to Dr. Clive Boddy of Anglia Ruskin University, the real ratio of male female psychopathy may be about 1.2:1 – up to five times higher than previously suggested.

It can also be due to their lack of need to enhance their appearance to others

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“People generally attribute psychopathic characteristics to males rather than to females,” Dr. Boddy explained.

“So even when females display some of the key traits associated with psychopathy – such as being insincere, deceitful, antagonistic, unempathetic and lacking in emotional depth – because these are seen as male characteristics, they may not be labelled as such, even when they should be.”

He stated: “Also, female psychopaths tend to use words, rather than violence, to achieve their aims, differing from how male psychopaths tend to operate.

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“If female psychopathy expresses differently, then measures designed to capture and identify male, criminal psychopaths may be inadequate at identifying female, non-criminal psychopaths.”

According to the expert, female psychopaths, while not as severely psychopathic or as psychopathic as often as males are, have nevertheless been underestimated in their incidence levels and are therefore more of a potential threat to business and society than anyone previously suspected.

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“This has implications for the criminal justice system because current risk management decisions involving partners and children may be faulty,” he said. “It also has implications for organizational leadership selection decisions because female leaders cannot automatically be assumed to be more honest, caring and concerned with issues such as corporate social responsibility.”

“So if you don’t wear makeup you’re a psychopath, and if you do then you’re a narcissist,” a reader quipped

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FreeTheUnicorn
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one study, done in one country, with no mention of the per centage of the general population that regularly wear make up, or how many women with psychopathic tendencies were identified in the study. There's no meaningful information relayednij this article, and it makes me doubt the study's methodology.

ConstantlyJon
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never worn makeup in my life so I must be institutionalized.

Seán Hannan
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poll question misunderstands the results of the study. "Women with psychopathy are less likely to wear makeup" is not the same as "Women who wear less makeup may have higher psychopathy traits".

LokisLilButterknife
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, Boredpanada. You are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. What the hell is up with this website anymore?

DefinitelyNotTheDuolingoOwl
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm also disappointed. Not to be the "good old days" crier but content quality has gone way down in the last year or two. The articles used to feel like National Geographic or Reader's Digest, now it just feels like a tabloid magazine.

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LonelyLittleLeafSheep
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1400 Brazilian women is not nearly enough of a sample size to draw this conclusion as it applies to women as a whole. Absolute junk science at its finest.

Pencil McGovern
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention the significant differences across all the wildly varying cultures, religions, climates and economies of the world which have direct and substantial influence on makeup usage and every other aspect of public presentation. Agree with "absolute junk science".

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Myrtia Daskalaki
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The study claims that women psychopaths tend to wear less make-up, not the other way around, that women who wear less make-up tend to be psychopaths. Important distinction I believe 🙃🙂🙃

Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The interpretation of the "results" is also wild. Their theory is that because psychopaths are charming, they dont need to rely on make-up to manipulate others. Because of course women who wear make up do it to manipulate others!

TribbleThinking
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not even a smidgen of powder. Right, you lot, fear me. Now! Mwahaaahaaaa!

Amelia Jade
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I suck at applying it, hate the way it feels, and have massive anxiety whenever I try to wear it because I can't get it perfect (thanks, OCD). It is just easier not to wear it. Also, it's rather insulting that they imply that women who do wear makeup, do it as a manipulation tactic. Why is it so hard to believe women wear or don't wear makeup as a personal choice for themselves and it has nothing to do with anyone else?

Arlene Harris
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm going to continue to not wear makeup in my bid to become a criminal mastermind thankyouverymuch

P Peitsch
Community Member
2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or,, maybe, just maybe you work a job, what doesn't really fit well with make up, and any other beauty treats, like painted nails or having longer than 1-2 cm nails, wearing jewelry and so on. Not to be extreme, I give just one simple example: being a cook. Believe me, if you don't wear make up 5 days a week, you won't feel any urge to do so on the remaining 2.

Sunny Day
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't wear makeup. Never have. But idk if it's psychopathy. I always felt unattractive, and had the "lipstick on a pig" mentality.

CanadianDimes
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And here I thought I didn’t wear makeup because I feel comfortable without it. What a psychopath I just be.

Vix Spiderthrust
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So if you have good skin and don't have to wear makeup to hide blemishes, you must be a psychopath, even though psychopathy is not a real medical term. Got it

Trillian
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The poll question is wrong. The study found that women who are psychopaths tend to wear less make-up, not the other way round.

FreeTheUnicorn
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone who wears make up to the gym is definitely a psychopath. But good to know the main settings you find women outside the home are on a first date, in a meeting, or at the gym. How could you get a good idea of trends if these are the limited data points you collect?

Lost Penny
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wearing makeup -- you're a narcissist. Not wearing makeup -- you're a psychopath. There is just no win for us, is there?

Amanda Thomas
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I don't wear makeup because I personally hate the way it feels on my skin, and when I was a kid wearing stage makeup for dance classes, it made me itch horribly. Granted that was back in the '90s, but it left enough of a lasting impression that I don't like wearing makeup. I'm comfortable with my face appearing exactly how it is. However, I 100% also support women who do wear makeup if it makes them feel better about themselves, or better about how they're presenting themselves to the world. Like to each their own. I don't care one way or the other. I just don't wear it for myself. As far as being a psychopath, that doesn't make any sense. I don't understand how they discovered this correlation with no data to explain how they got it

Mike F
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is just idiotic. I only got about a dozen words into it and I (a woefully uneducated plebe) smell a rat. How can this "study" be put out as anything scholarly? Totally ignoring the comments about "put out there by a man" this absolutely reads like a makeup manufacturer's advertisement. I've lived through many "waves" of styles, heavily made up, no makeup, just a tad, painted up like a Duesenburg, and everything in between and I am pretty certain I've met my share of folks who were suffering from mental illness and I truly don't remember a corelation between makeup use and and psychopothy. What a load of cr@p!

Jumping Jellyfishes
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many women read the title and exclaimed, "Hey, I'm a psychopath!" I don't wear makeup because I never learned how to do it properly as a teen. Once you get past your teens and into adulthood, it doesn't look or feel right because you never got used to it

Eunice Probert
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's bull hockey. I have not worn any makeup at all for decades. And I'm not a psychopath. I don't wear it because I don't like it. I hate the way it feels on my skin, and the whole palavar of having to get it just right. And the price of it, for goodness sakes. There's no law that says we have to wear it. Interestingly, I had to see a therapist years ago and she decided there was something wrong with me because I didn't wear makeup. She was, of course, plastered in it.

Pyla
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Will need to see the deets on this. Otherwise, I am surrounded.

Xervesk
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like women aren't beaten down enough, now they can't even not wear make-up without being labelled.

Damned_Cat
Community Member
2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I suppose it's just a coincidence that I'm seeing a Sephora ad right next to this comment box? (Edited for typo)

KatSaidWhat
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WebMD does more harm than good. Everything is cancer. Even acne.

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I must be freaking bonkers then, cos I very rarely if ever wear it.... ain't nobody got time for dat.

A D
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a researcher, very misleading. The study doesn’t conclude women who wear less makeup are more psychopathic (or those who wear more are more narcissistic). Its saying of the women who are psychopathic, they tend to wear less makeup and of those who are narcissist tend to wear more. I wish people understood better how logic works so they don’t go around making assumptions about women who do or don’t wear makeup. Very irresponsible wording in this article.

rpts6jmtdb
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look into who owns this site. The actual investor. And I’m certain the men associated to him as well. Misogynistic sadomasochists …. With fragile egos and companies that run off these ethos Signed a woman who rejected him and wears very little makeup 💄

rpts6jmtdb
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look into who owns bored panda… misogynist … sadomasochist… currently hateful of me… a woman with a story of cascading trauma… who could see the path he was taking her down and has been cutting ties since… no shocker here… I wear very little to no makeup.

J
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I must be a psychopath, I only tried makeup a few times and I hated the way it felt on my skin, so it was washed off almost immediately.

Anna Drever
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a load of horse manure. I used to wear makeup when I was younger but now I don’t give a cr@p. So where do I stand on the psychopath scale???

Roberta Surprenant
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to wear makeup back in the 70s/80s, now I only wear it when I am a dancing zombie at Halloween. Guess I'm a psychopath.

Michael Largey
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gee, if you're a psychopath, looking your absolute best may not be your tip top number one priority. Who would have thought it?

ADDchallengedINFP-T
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All these experts, research "know it alls" can study something else. One country doesn't make every country's women the same statistics. B.S. Go and read a book of fantasy land.

Cathy Roberts
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Come on people it says right in the study that it's not a moral judgment on makeup habits or psychotic people.

07000
Community Member
2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From the abstract of the study: Study from Brazil based on online personality tests and questionnaire about makeup use. Results revealed makeup usage was positively associated with narcissism and extraversion, and negatively with psychopathy. Additionally, women used less makeup when alone (at home, exercises) and more in social settings, particularly for the first date. However, women with higher narcissism and neuroticism showed larger differences among low and high makeup usage situations, while individuals with higher psychopathy used makeup in similar frequencies among different situations. Further, (1) overall greater users of makeup scored higher on narcissism, conscientiousness, and agreeableness; (2) average users displayed lower psychopathy; and (3) lesser users reported lower narcissism and higher psychopathy.

Alexandra Nara
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a s****y correlation... May be that psychopaths don't give a f about attracting others and for this cause needs no make up to impress. But you can't turn the results around by a survy of q peer group, that don' t is diagnosed for any mental disorder. We wear makeup not only to impress ,the same we don't wear short skirts to attract each day and everyone. I wear make up for fun,sometimes due impress ,sometimes to express,sometimes to hide a pimple,I don't like.Often IAm too tired and rush out of the bed straight to the office,don't even check my hair in the bus. does a quint of not giving a f**k or good selfsesteem make you have a mental disorder? Surprise dear prof, this happens on both sides of the no/full make up story and doesn't belong to any correlation with msnipulation,lackof emphaty or else.

monmichka77
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So it turns out, the real reason I don't wear makeup, is not because I'm allergic, I'm a PSYCHOPATH! RRAAAWWWRRRR! Look out world, I'm coming to getcha!!

Cee Cee
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't feel clean with makeup on my face. Besides not really practical for my life of gardening, dog walking and motorbike riding.

FreeTheUnicorn
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one study, done in one country, with no mention of the per centage of the general population that regularly wear make up, or how many women with psychopathic tendencies were identified in the study. There's no meaningful information relayednij this article, and it makes me doubt the study's methodology.

ConstantlyJon
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never worn makeup in my life so I must be institutionalized.

Seán Hannan
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poll question misunderstands the results of the study. "Women with psychopathy are less likely to wear makeup" is not the same as "Women who wear less makeup may have higher psychopathy traits".

LokisLilButterknife
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, Boredpanada. You are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. What the hell is up with this website anymore?

DefinitelyNotTheDuolingoOwl
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm also disappointed. Not to be the "good old days" crier but content quality has gone way down in the last year or two. The articles used to feel like National Geographic or Reader's Digest, now it just feels like a tabloid magazine.

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LonelyLittleLeafSheep
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1400 Brazilian women is not nearly enough of a sample size to draw this conclusion as it applies to women as a whole. Absolute junk science at its finest.

Pencil McGovern
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention the significant differences across all the wildly varying cultures, religions, climates and economies of the world which have direct and substantial influence on makeup usage and every other aspect of public presentation. Agree with "absolute junk science".

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Myrtia Daskalaki
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The study claims that women psychopaths tend to wear less make-up, not the other way around, that women who wear less make-up tend to be psychopaths. Important distinction I believe 🙃🙂🙃

Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The interpretation of the "results" is also wild. Their theory is that because psychopaths are charming, they dont need to rely on make-up to manipulate others. Because of course women who wear make up do it to manipulate others!

TribbleThinking
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not even a smidgen of powder. Right, you lot, fear me. Now! Mwahaaahaaaa!

Amelia Jade
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I suck at applying it, hate the way it feels, and have massive anxiety whenever I try to wear it because I can't get it perfect (thanks, OCD). It is just easier not to wear it. Also, it's rather insulting that they imply that women who do wear makeup, do it as a manipulation tactic. Why is it so hard to believe women wear or don't wear makeup as a personal choice for themselves and it has nothing to do with anyone else?

Arlene Harris
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm going to continue to not wear makeup in my bid to become a criminal mastermind thankyouverymuch

P Peitsch
Community Member
2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or,, maybe, just maybe you work a job, what doesn't really fit well with make up, and any other beauty treats, like painted nails or having longer than 1-2 cm nails, wearing jewelry and so on. Not to be extreme, I give just one simple example: being a cook. Believe me, if you don't wear make up 5 days a week, you won't feel any urge to do so on the remaining 2.

Sunny Day
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't wear makeup. Never have. But idk if it's psychopathy. I always felt unattractive, and had the "lipstick on a pig" mentality.

CanadianDimes
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And here I thought I didn’t wear makeup because I feel comfortable without it. What a psychopath I just be.

Vix Spiderthrust
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So if you have good skin and don't have to wear makeup to hide blemishes, you must be a psychopath, even though psychopathy is not a real medical term. Got it

Trillian
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The poll question is wrong. The study found that women who are psychopaths tend to wear less make-up, not the other way round.

FreeTheUnicorn
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone who wears make up to the gym is definitely a psychopath. But good to know the main settings you find women outside the home are on a first date, in a meeting, or at the gym. How could you get a good idea of trends if these are the limited data points you collect?

Lost Penny
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wearing makeup -- you're a narcissist. Not wearing makeup -- you're a psychopath. There is just no win for us, is there?

Amanda Thomas
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I don't wear makeup because I personally hate the way it feels on my skin, and when I was a kid wearing stage makeup for dance classes, it made me itch horribly. Granted that was back in the '90s, but it left enough of a lasting impression that I don't like wearing makeup. I'm comfortable with my face appearing exactly how it is. However, I 100% also support women who do wear makeup if it makes them feel better about themselves, or better about how they're presenting themselves to the world. Like to each their own. I don't care one way or the other. I just don't wear it for myself. As far as being a psychopath, that doesn't make any sense. I don't understand how they discovered this correlation with no data to explain how they got it

Mike F
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is just idiotic. I only got about a dozen words into it and I (a woefully uneducated plebe) smell a rat. How can this "study" be put out as anything scholarly? Totally ignoring the comments about "put out there by a man" this absolutely reads like a makeup manufacturer's advertisement. I've lived through many "waves" of styles, heavily made up, no makeup, just a tad, painted up like a Duesenburg, and everything in between and I am pretty certain I've met my share of folks who were suffering from mental illness and I truly don't remember a corelation between makeup use and and psychopothy. What a load of cr@p!

Jumping Jellyfishes
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How many women read the title and exclaimed, "Hey, I'm a psychopath!" I don't wear makeup because I never learned how to do it properly as a teen. Once you get past your teens and into adulthood, it doesn't look or feel right because you never got used to it

Eunice Probert
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's bull hockey. I have not worn any makeup at all for decades. And I'm not a psychopath. I don't wear it because I don't like it. I hate the way it feels on my skin, and the whole palavar of having to get it just right. And the price of it, for goodness sakes. There's no law that says we have to wear it. Interestingly, I had to see a therapist years ago and she decided there was something wrong with me because I didn't wear makeup. She was, of course, plastered in it.

Pyla
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Will need to see the deets on this. Otherwise, I am surrounded.

Xervesk
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like women aren't beaten down enough, now they can't even not wear make-up without being labelled.

Damned_Cat
Community Member
2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I suppose it's just a coincidence that I'm seeing a Sephora ad right next to this comment box? (Edited for typo)

KatSaidWhat
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WebMD does more harm than good. Everything is cancer. Even acne.

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I must be freaking bonkers then, cos I very rarely if ever wear it.... ain't nobody got time for dat.

A D
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a researcher, very misleading. The study doesn’t conclude women who wear less makeup are more psychopathic (or those who wear more are more narcissistic). Its saying of the women who are psychopathic, they tend to wear less makeup and of those who are narcissist tend to wear more. I wish people understood better how logic works so they don’t go around making assumptions about women who do or don’t wear makeup. Very irresponsible wording in this article.

rpts6jmtdb
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look into who owns this site. The actual investor. And I’m certain the men associated to him as well. Misogynistic sadomasochists …. With fragile egos and companies that run off these ethos Signed a woman who rejected him and wears very little makeup 💄

rpts6jmtdb
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look into who owns bored panda… misogynist … sadomasochist… currently hateful of me… a woman with a story of cascading trauma… who could see the path he was taking her down and has been cutting ties since… no shocker here… I wear very little to no makeup.

J
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I must be a psychopath, I only tried makeup a few times and I hated the way it felt on my skin, so it was washed off almost immediately.

Anna Drever
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a load of horse manure. I used to wear makeup when I was younger but now I don’t give a cr@p. So where do I stand on the psychopath scale???

Roberta Surprenant
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to wear makeup back in the 70s/80s, now I only wear it when I am a dancing zombie at Halloween. Guess I'm a psychopath.

Michael Largey
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gee, if you're a psychopath, looking your absolute best may not be your tip top number one priority. Who would have thought it?

ADDchallengedINFP-T
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All these experts, research "know it alls" can study something else. One country doesn't make every country's women the same statistics. B.S. Go and read a book of fantasy land.

Cathy Roberts
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Come on people it says right in the study that it's not a moral judgment on makeup habits or psychotic people.

07000
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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From the abstract of the study: Study from Brazil based on online personality tests and questionnaire about makeup use. Results revealed makeup usage was positively associated with narcissism and extraversion, and negatively with psychopathy. Additionally, women used less makeup when alone (at home, exercises) and more in social settings, particularly for the first date. However, women with higher narcissism and neuroticism showed larger differences among low and high makeup usage situations, while individuals with higher psychopathy used makeup in similar frequencies among different situations. Further, (1) overall greater users of makeup scored higher on narcissism, conscientiousness, and agreeableness; (2) average users displayed lower psychopathy; and (3) lesser users reported lower narcissism and higher psychopathy.

Alexandra Nara
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a s****y correlation... May be that psychopaths don't give a f about attracting others and for this cause needs no make up to impress. But you can't turn the results around by a survy of q peer group, that don' t is diagnosed for any mental disorder. We wear makeup not only to impress ,the same we don't wear short skirts to attract each day and everyone. I wear make up for fun,sometimes due impress ,sometimes to express,sometimes to hide a pimple,I don't like.Often IAm too tired and rush out of the bed straight to the office,don't even check my hair in the bus. does a quint of not giving a f**k or good selfsesteem make you have a mental disorder? Surprise dear prof, this happens on both sides of the no/full make up story and doesn't belong to any correlation with msnipulation,lackof emphaty or else.

monmichka77
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So it turns out, the real reason I don't wear makeup, is not because I'm allergic, I'm a PSYCHOPATH! RRAAAWWWRRRR! Look out world, I'm coming to getcha!!

Cee Cee
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't feel clean with makeup on my face. Besides not really practical for my life of gardening, dog walking and motorbike riding.

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