Contributed by: ElyseRomano on Saturday, January 07 2012 @ 09:42 am
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Cheaters can be identified by their voices. Highlighting your flaws in photographs may actually make you more attractive online. Listening to Adele could make you more a more desirable date. Men like women who have been dumped, and women prefer men who have done the dumping. Hamsters are rarely a dealbreaker.
That's what we've learned so far from YourTango's recap of "The 11 Weirdest Dating Studies Of 2011". We've got six more to go...what else has 2011 taught us about our love lives?
There may be a link between drinking and monogamy. According to Reason.com, the more a society practices monogamy, the more it consumes alcohol. Monogamy may also correlate with technological and cultural advancements.
Men take longer to get ready than women. Busted! We ladies may have the reputation for taking up the bathroom for hours, but a study this year found that men take an average of 81 minutes to get ready compared to a woman's 75 minutes. They even broke it down by task: 23 minutes in the shower, 18 minutes shaving, 10 minutes cleansing and toning, and 13 minutes selecting an outfit.
"Two Hearts Beat As One" is more than a U2 song. Ramesh Rao, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, says that "heart-synching" may be an accurate measure of how well two people connect on a physical and emotional level. When two hearts beat in sync because their magnetic fields are entangled, their rhythm can change and indicate how well a date is going.
Women shouldn't be overly friendly with their partner's friends. A study published in the American Journal of Sociology found a link between sexual dysfunction in older men and the friendship between their friends and female partners. When a woman has stronger relationships with her partner's friends than he does, it undermines his feelings of independence, privacy, and masculinity, causing him to feel insecure.
Women have better recall for things spoken in a deep voice. David Smith and a team from the University of Aberdeen found that women remember objects presented to them more accurately when they are introduced by a deep male voice, rather than a higher-pitched male voice. Low masculine voices also play a role in mate choice for women.
Men who cheat on their spouses are more likely to do themselves an injury...to a very private place. Only one word is needed to sum this study up: Ouch.
So there you have it... the 11 weirdest dating studies of 2011, and some interesting food for thought for 2012.