Able to bring out the best and worst in people, apparently chaotic and unpredictable, has been the object of study by science repeatedly. Here are four scientific facts you did not know about human relationships.
Reality is distorted in a relationship
A study published in the journal Personal Relationships concluded that love is being a little naive, and that happier couples are those in which there is a greater incidence of distortion of reality. The experiment consisted of two samples of heterosexual couples who share a house or are married. The first sample was 117, and the second sample was 203 people. They were asked to rate how attractive the person and their partner were both facially and physically. What they found is that in happy couples there was a clear tendency to rank their partner with a higher rating than the same person put on. That is, when you are in love you see your partner more attractive than it really is, thus distorting reality.
Couples who say "we" are better at resolving conflicts
In a study conducted by the University of Berkeley in In California, 154 couples, middle-aged up, were interviewed about the disagreements they had in their relationship. The study found that couples who referred to themselves with the pronouns "we," "our," etc., showed less psychological stress and had a better relationship with each other. Couples who tried to highlight their individuality through words like "I" had a worse relationship. And as if they did it on purpose, this happens in greater quantity with older couples.
The younger the girlfriend, the more expensive the ring
In a study that made the psychologists Cronk and Dunham was found to exist a negative correlation between the price of the ring and the age of the bride. That is, the younger the woman, the more expensive the ring. They explain it by arguing that the value of the ring is related to the "quality" of reproduction of both parts of the relationship (in this case valued through the income of the couple).
If you are a woman, and your parents are divorced, you are more likely to do so
It is well known that children of divorced or separated parents have a more hostile attitude toward marriage, but a study published in the journal Family Psychology showed this trend for the first time. During the experiment, four main variables were measured in 265 couples engaged in their first marriage. What was measured was trust and commitment in the relationship, divorce of the parents of the couple and the amount of conflict reported in the parents' relationship. The study found that women whose parents have divorced have less confidence and commitment in their marriage, so the possibility of divorce rises. In addition to demonstrating scientifically that men are, in fact, insensitive.
Source: http://revistamujeres.cl/emira-4-datos-cientificos-que-no-sabias-de-las-relaciones-de- couple / prontus_revistamujeres / 2013-04-22 / 091642.html
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