Idealizing Or Settling? Real Life Partners Don't Stack Up To Ideal Mates
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 13:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Our ideal image of the perfect partner differs greatly from the one we have, according to new research from the University of Sheffield and the University of Montpellier in France. Why would we choose partners with a different height, weight and body mass index than those we would ideally choose? It may be that we take what we can get. The study found that most men and women express different mating preferences for body morphology than the actual morphology of their partners and the discrepancies between real mates and fantasies were often larger for women than for men. read more