Do You Understand the OppositeSex?
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There's the joke about a young man who describes his ideal bride: "Studies show that people with opposite traits make the best marriages…that's why I'm looking for an attractive girl with money."
The old adage does indeed declare that "opposites attract," but behavioral scientists have exposed this cliché for the ruse it really is. For a long time, scientists and love were strangers who had never really met. Love, subjective and complex, has only recently become a topic of scientific research.
But things are changing, and studies at institutions such as Brandeis University and the University of South Carolina have yielded some interesting results. One major finding is that men and women differ in their reactions to falling--and being--in love.
To learn how much you know about the differences between the way men and women experience love, take the following quiz.
