How To Judge a Man By His Fingers: What His Long Ring Finger Means for Women

Maybe you should take a good look at your partner's fingers before putting a ring on one.

Men with short index fingers and long ring fingers are on average nicer towards women, and this stems from the hormones these men have been exposed to in their mother's womb.

According to a new study reported in Science Daily this might help explain why these men tend to have more children.

This is the first study to highlight how finger lengths affect behavior differently depending on the sex of the person you are interacting with.

"When with women, men with smaller ratios were more likely to listen attentively, smile and laugh, compromise or compliment the other person". They acted that way in sexual relationships, but also with female friends or colleagues. These men were also less quarrelsome with women than with men, whereas the men with larger ratios were equally quarrelsome with both. For women though, digit ratio variation did not seem to predict how they behaved.

Men with small digit ratios reported approximately a third more agreeable behaviors and approximately a third fewer quarrelsome behaviors than men with large digit ratios.

A previous study had found that men with smaller digit ratios have more children. The "research suggests they have more harmonious relationships with women; these behaviors support the formation and maintenance of relationships with women. This might explain why they have more children on average."