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Men dating better-looking women beware: new research reveals that she might be less committed than her less attractive counterparts.

New research reveals that women who believe they are more attractive than their partners are significantly less likely to be committed to their relationship and are significantly more likely to flirt or seek attention from other men.

"Women who perceived themselves as more attractive than their mates (partners) showed less interest in their current romantic relationships," said the study authors, according to the Daily Mail.

"Women reported less commitment to their relationships, as well as more thoughts about breaking up with their mates when they rated themselves as more attractive than their partners," researchers from Eastern Connecticut State University said.

"They reported more interest in men other than their partners...more flirting with other men, as well as more appealing dating alternatives," they added.

The latest study involved 692 women in romantic relationships who were asked to rate their own as well as their partner's physical attractiveness.

"We found that when women perceive themselves as more attractive than their mates they are less satisfied with their current relationships and tend to seek alternative (possibly more attractive) partners," said lead researcher Professor Madeleine Fugere, according to the Daily Mail.

"Men - for evolutionary reasons, such as making sure any offspring are their own - prefer their partners to stay faithful and thus may employ tactics to keep them faithful such as discouraging their partners from talking with other men," Fugere explained. "Women, especially more attractive women, may resist this mate guarding by hanging out with other men when their partners are not around or erasing phone messages from other men so their partners don't find them."

"We think that women are resisting this mate guarding either to pursue a different partner (and break up with their original partner) or to keep the less attractive partner while also pursuing other partners," she concluded.

The findings were published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.