clipped from www.sciam.com
People in Love Are Blind to Pretty Faces
If your loved one claims to “only have eyes for you”
it might be truer than you think
Research shows that people in a committed relationship who have been thinking about their partner actually avert their eyes from attractive members of the opposite sex without even being aware they are doing it
it takes longer for viewers to shift their attention away from attractive faces of the opposite sex.
subjects who were married
Those who wrote about love actually turned their attention away from attractive members of the opposite sex even more quickly
than they looked away from average-looking people
This unconscious attentional bias probably evolved to help men and women stay in monogamous relationships
in humans tend to have a reproductive advantage
These biases have been built into our psychology to enhance people’s reproductive success.”
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