Those who have the ability to view themselves objectively and behave in a way that is consistent with their beliefs get more out of romantic relationships.Researchers at Ohio State University gave 62 college-age couples three separate tests pertaining to their personalities and relationship health. They found a clear correlation between those possessing "dispositional authenticity" -- which more or less means "the ability to stay true to yourself" -- and those reporting positive romantic relationships.
People with dispositional authenticity are more intimate with their partners and usually display fewer destructive relationship behaviors. Interestingly, whereas men who have this trait usually date women who are the same way; women with dispositional authenticity are no more likely to have a partner who is true to himself.
This discrepancy is responsible for the plot of many romantic comedies and perhaps the entire chick-lit genre.


























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Saturday 10 April
By dennisphnx4
Chicks like bad boys. And then wonder why they were used and abused. End of story
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Saturday 10 April
By rh
dennisphnx4, you hit the nail on the head.
Saturday 10 April
By a man
Women say that they don't care what a man looks like, but that's not true. They are more into looks than men are. Love doesn't matter to them
Sunday 11 April
By RALPH
JERK
Sunday 11 April
By julie
Hey MAN, if all women really cared about what a man looks like, how do you explain all these ugly ass kids walking around?
Sunday 11 April
By rojohawk7
Ladies love outlaws ... NOT the same as 'bad men' ...
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Sunday 11 April
By JOe200000
wow, you like some kind of dumb kid. you'll be mooching money off fat welfare women stealing cookies from kids. oh and stealing stuff.
Sunday 11 April
By Dean
Just another bull shit study that means nothing and a waste of tax payers money.
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Monday 12 April
By bazel
Dean... You always sound like you've got a reindeer antler stuck up your craw. Why is that?
Sunday 11 April
By celeste
girls like bad boys because of the adventure. we do care about love and romance, probably more than any guy could. looks matter but at the end of the day, we just want to feel loved and wanted.
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Sunday 11 April
By BJ
I'm with you!
Sunday 11 April
By cparton126
Okay, you guys are REALLY wanting to paint everyone with the same, big brush. Yes, I care about what a man looks like- like you don't care about what women look like. Yes, I prefer tall men since I am 5'8 myself. But I care about love, intelligence and not walking into a relationship with a bad boy to just give me more issues than I already have going in. I am a dispositional woman in a relationship with a dispositional man. He is good looking and tall and smart and I make no apologies for my relationship to you three. Why don't you stop being so incredibly jealous and judgmental and maybe you, too, can be happy one day.
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Saturday 10 April
By Tony
Yeah, and I'll bet you didn't marry a fast food employee or a trash collector or an auto mechanic did you?
Sunday 11 April
By Anna
Why would she marry a trash collector or mechanic?
Sunday 11 April
By Nicole
Women can endure much in relationships. I hate to generalize, but men--eh, not so much. When the going gets tough, they get going. And as for romance, so much of that is the courting stage and is gone as soon as he has landed his catch. It is the enduring tendencies of women that will make us seek a relationship with a man long after it has turned dysfunctional at the worst to nonexistent at the lighter end of the spectrum. Especially when children are involved, women will quietly (or not so, ha) endure the loss of romance and intimacy. Men may like the "out" of blaming the wife for lack of romance, but in my small corner of the world every wife I know (including me) is eager to keep the romance alive--just hard to do that for two.
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Sunday 11 April
By nukeya
Women get together with men expecting them to change and they don't, and men get together with women thinking they won't change and they do.
I get a good laugh out of the term "Relationship Expert", frankly, there is no such thing.
Here's the deal, if it works, stick with it, if it doesn't, move on until it does.
Or die alone with 400 cats, whatever, if your expectations are high, prepare to be seriously dissapointed, may take a month, a year, 10 years, but your going to find out. If your expectations are low, you have everywhere to go.
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Sunday 11 April
By Tamara
Though some of the comments here about some women may be true..please don't categorize or feel that all women feel this way.
I happen to want someone loving, caring, warm, and affectionate.
I feel everyone, at some degree, wants someone that he/she feels attracted to. However, there is so much more to relationships and love, than of looking outward. Also, there must be open communication and consistency with each other. Communication, whether good or bad...is so important. It's also important to be yourself and feel relaxed, and to feel you can come to him/her at any time..to talk, or to lean your shoulder on..to laugh..or to cry.
So, please..don't feel that all women don't care about love.
I know that I certainly do. Love is what makes this world continue and what life is really all about.
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Saturday 10 April
By Gawjis46
Leave it to the typically cynical man to blame it all on women. Thank God women are stronger in every way. If men were only able to be honest that they all have the straying gene and they all think with the wrong head. Bravo to all women who have a real man who knows the meaning of monogomous. I will never lose faith that I too will find my real man...
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Sunday 11 April
By F250man07
Well good luck finding someone with that attitude honey. "Thank God women are stronger in every way." Yes, from my experience that is true. They are stronger at manipulating men for their own advancement playing them for whatever they can get out of a man, money, jewels, cars, homes, vacations, you name it and if they are married to the guy, after they have gotten everything they can out of him, they move on to the next poor sap.
And as for your comment about all men needing to admit they all have the straying gene and always think with the wrong head that is ridiculous. Not all men are this way and I am one of them that isn't. It is the women who constantly flirt with other men even when married and then wonder why they are having problems with their relationship. True there are some men who stray but I have seen many more women this way than men in my years on this planet.
Men will be monogamous (and I mean "real men", not the "bad boys" that could care less about them that so many women seem to want over a guy who will treat them with dignity and respect) when the women quit fooling themselves and realize that the bad boy types are users just as the bad girl types are for men. You get what you deserve. Be real with yourself and expectations and a relationship can be had that is rewarding and fulfilling.
Saturday 10 April
By harlynhorses
In my 63 years I have found--there is no such thing as love--women want money! they want their own way, they won't settle for the man being the leader of the home.. Do the hormone thing--smile n style--you are much better staying single. I'm older and content with this kind of life--going fishing--getting firewood--raising my livestock--go hunting--do dishes if I WANT---whatever--you will spend a good portion of your life trying to please a female that will screw you over in the finale run.... don't do it!!!!
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