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Love is Blind? You Bet!
According to researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee, US, people who are in love pay less visual attention to attractive people of the opposite sex.
In the study, the scientists asked 57 students in heterosexual relationships to write about occasions they felt extreme love towards their partner. Another 56 students wrote about feeling extreme happiness.
The students then viewed 500 microsecond flashes of 60 photos, comprising equal numbers of highly attractive men, highly attractive women, average-looking men, and average-looking women.
As the faces disappeared, a square or a circle appeared elsewhere on the screen.
The students were asked to identify the object as quickly as possible - a measure of a person's visual attention at a subconscious level.
Students primed with thoughts of love took significantly less time to identify shapes after viewing an attractive face of the opposite sex, compared with those who had written essays on happiness.
"We found that when people just thought about being in love with their current partner, their visual attention got repelled, rather than grabbed, by an attractive member of the opposite sex," New Scientist quoted Maner, as saying.
The finding may help explain why those in love do not seek out other, perhaps better, mates.
"[The repulsion] happens at the very initial stages of visual processing, at the very first moment they are aware of the photo," Maner said.
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07/10/2008
Yes. There is a lot of truth in this research. Most humans "think" with their 2nd "brain" the stomach and react from that butterfly feeling and are blind by rationality when in love. We donÂīt analyse we react via biological instinct to a compliment or kindness or even a smell of the opposite sex, not always attractiveness. This is secondary.All 5 senses are displayed here (even our 6th sense may play a role). But the truth is we also often rely on our past experiences to form our judgments (maybe the man or woman reminds us of someone we love, a mother, father, past lover etc).
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