http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/21/why-men-are-settling-for-mrs-good-enough.html

The article's really interesting.  The survey comes from Helen Fisher, an advisor for Chemistry.com who helped them build their hormone-based and personality-based match system.  In addition to their findings about men and committment they found:

"Republicans, apparently have more organsms; that gay men are more romantic, and ambitious women turn men on."

What do you think?

http://www.yourtango.com/helenfisher/page/2

This article explain Helen Fisher's 4 broad Personality types and a more about her matching system:

"The Explorer, who expresses activity in the dopamine system, tends to be risk-taking, novelty-seeking, curious, creative, spontaneous, energetic, enthusiastic, optimistic.

The second type is the Builder who expresses with serotonin.  These people are calm, social, popular, cautious, but not fearful.  Very managerial, they're very good at networking, family's very important to them.  They're traditional, conventional, often religious.

The third type is the Director, expressive of testosterone.  They're direct, decisive, tough-minded and often understand music very well because music is very structural.  They're competitive ambitious and very good at spatial relations.

The fourth type is the Negotiator, expressive of estrogen - both men and women can be expressive of estrogen.  These people see the big picture.  They're very flexible, imaginative and intuitive.  They're compassionate and verbal."

If your interested, you can take the test at chemisty.com for free.  I think I'm a negotiator/director.

Has anyone tried their system?  Did their the category you were placed in describe you?  Did their matching system work for you?

I recognise instantly that all the men I've fallen in love with are Explorer types!

I believe I was classified as a builder , I think my matches were as well . I'll check a little later on :D

I don't think that I could be classified as anything but an explorer

and in regards for settling?  I believe it.  My ex-husband for example, after we broke up, was very disillusioned about relationships and sort of gave up, yet he didn't want to be alone.  That's a sad place to be, if you ask me.

I disagree that ambitious women turn men on. In my experience, women with drive and balls turn men off. It indimidates their manliness and they don't like it. I've actually had an ex tell me he wished I were more feminine and needed more protecting.

The fact I could take care of myself, I knew what I wanted and I went for it really made him feel badly about HIMSELF.

@luci: you have a really good point!  I'm don't think they phrased it the right way. 

I think it's getting better (more so in some circles than others).  It depends on the circumstance.  The field/profession is pretty important.  I'm a 20-something in school and in my field the graduates are 50/50 m/f.  And the boys at school are pretty good about these things and many are happy being in relationships with strong women.  Ie it's pretty normal because they're used to seeing it in our field.  But if you take business grads and MBAs my age, it isn't like that.  Many of these guys are looking trophy girlfriends.  If you think about it, most CEOs are still male.  A lot of business dealings go on in golf-clubs, hotel rooms, strip clubs, etc.  It's just a different atmosphere.