MEDIA ROOTS- In an ideal world, your partner would not judge you based on
the way your last relationship ended. Unfortunately, as a recent study in the
scientific journal Evolutionary Psychology discovered, the real world is
a little different.
It is no surprise that neither men nor women find their
partners more attractive after discovering that they were on the receiving end
of their last break-ups. The flip-side, however, is a different story.
According to the study, titled
“Rejection Hurts: The Effect of Being Dumped on Subsequent Mating Efforts,” the
average woman actually finds her partner more attractive after
discovering that he initiated the split with his last partner.
The subjects of the study
rated fictional personal ads for individuals of their genders of choice before
and after they learned whether the fictional people had dumped their last
partners, had been dumped, or refused to say. According to the results, nobody
will like you better if you’ve been dumped, and nobody will like you
better if you won’t tell – but women will like you better if you were the one
to end your last relationship.
As with any scientific
study, this does not apply to everyone; it merely points out a trend. And the
trend, in this case, appears to be that you can’t win with men no matter what
you do, and you can only win with women by breaking someone’s heart.
Don’t come to any
conclusions about what you should do with your current relationship just
because of this study; all of the differences in preference were relatively
minor. But if you date women, and you expect your current relationship to end
soon, you might want to consider doing the dirty work yourself. It may help you
in the long run.
Mitchell Singer is an SFSU
undergraduate student with a great interest in all types of verbal
expression. Aside from newswriting,
blogging, and freelance copywriting, he spends his time sampling
different media of visual art and reading books on a variety of subjects.
Photo by flickr user oedipusphinx
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MEDIA ROOTS- In an ideal world, your partner would not judge you based on
the way your last relationship ended. Unfortunately, as a recent study in the
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