Scarlett Johansson has opened up about her love life and the kind of man that she is looking for.

The 27-year-old finalised her divorce from Ryan Reynolds earlier this year and was linked to Sean Penn for a short while.

But the actress has revealed in the January issue of Cosmopolitan magazine what she looks for her in a partner.

"I'm attracted to the quality of being adventurous and perhaps a bit mischievous and also questioning authority and being proactive," she shared.

But she acknowledged that these qualities may not come in the type of man that she could bring home to meet her parents.

"If that makes up a quintessential bad boy, then whatever," she said candidly. "I'm not at all attracted to meanness or bullying, but I do think conviction is attractive. I mean, really, who doesn't?"

Scarlett also dived in on the subject of social media and her disdain for tweeting and status updates.

"I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account," she shared. "And I don't know how I feel about this idea of, Now I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time,' or I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids.'

"That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon. I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

"I guess [people] use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady."