4. Women are the ones who are more romantic
…What do you think? Is this true or false?
Many magazines that write articles about love and dating say that women need more romance in their lives and it’s up to men to give them what they want.
However, Match.com’s Singles in America study has discovered that roughly 59% of men believed in love at first sight, compared to only 49% of women.
To back this information up, biological anthropologist Helen Fisher suggests that this might be the cause of men being more visually oriented. They see a woman they find attractive and they’re all eyes and ears when it comes to her.
In addition to that, another study on the same topic suggests that men were more likely to believe and agree with statements such as “I know I can make things work, even though we have a few problems”, or “This woman is the only one I’ll ever love”.
Long story short, some people say that men who’ve had more social and economic freedom compared to women are actually less practical and hardheaded when it comes to romantic relationships.
5. Passionate love doesn’t last long
…but what if it does?
For years, many evolutionary scientists believed that deep intense romantic relationships lasted long enough for two people to meet, get together, have babies, and raise them into toddlerhood.
Some biologists refer to this thing as the “four-year itch”. They suggest that after this period, both men and women lose some of their passion for one another.
But a more recent study co-authored by Fisher suggests that passionate love can even last for decades, for some people. Psychologist Arthur Aron and neuroscientist Bianca P. Acevedo made an experiment and put 17 volunteers into an MRI machine.
All of these people were in serious monogamous relationships and all of them stated that even though a lot of time had passed, they still had their initial spark.
In conformity with the scans, the brains of these long-term sweethearts had a lot of things in common with those who are newly in love. However, they noticed an exception: those who are in serious relationships didn’t show any activity in the parts of the brain that are linked to anxiety and obsession when we first fall in love.
Scientists don’t have an exact answer to that, but they believe that it is because the subjects of the study had high levels of serotonin, a chemical substance credited for mood management.
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