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The wedding ring effect
The wedding ring effect states that an attached, spoken for or unavailabe man get more attention from women than a single available man.
I read about this ages ago in a study done with guppies in a tank, the female guppies seemed only interested in a male guppy if he was already the chosen mate by another female guppy, even if other single male guppies were bigger, better and prettier!
Okay, good enough for fish in a tank with the animal instinct to want the best mate for offspring...but do you find this to be a fair statement in the human world?
I would think that since women do have brains so very much larger than a guppy, that we would not be attracted to someone elses man simply because they are someone else's man!
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| November 18, 2007, 09:02 |
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In the Sun, Arizona, US
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Re: The wedding ring effect
I wonder if the reason women like the "wedding ring" is because if a man is married, all the annoying habits go to the wife, and the "other woman" only gets the romance out of the relationship. It takes time and I think maturity to realize that all those habits makes it special.
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| November 18, 2007, 13:47 |
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Re: The wedding ring effect
Good point!
I do think that there are just women, who are insecure, and constantly need some sort of reassurance that they are hot, or hotter than other women, and being able to "take a man away" is just measuring herself against the woman the man is involved with, and not so much to do with the man himself.....yeah, that's just sick, but it does happen and I would hope that these types are definitly the minority.
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| November 18, 2007, 22:41 |
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