In Romance, Too Many Choices May Hurt
Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 15:40
in Psychology & Sociology
In New York City, you can easily date a different person within a mile of your home for the rest of your life and never come close to duplicating - and that may be why people in New York City have trouble finding relationships, according to a study in Psychological Science. When people have a large number of potential dating partners to select from, say psychologist Alison Lenton of the University of Edinburgh and economist Marco Francesconi of the University of Essex, they respond by paying attention to different types of characteristics – discarding social attributes such as education, smoking status, and occupation in favor of physical characteristics such as height and weight. read more