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The article, “Love And Marriage: Wife’s Attractiveness Essential, Study Says,” was published Nov. 20.
Meltzer, lead researcher on the study, is an assistant professor in the SMU Department of Psychology.
EXCERPT:
By Roxanne Palmer
International Business Times
Men place a higher value on the attractiveness of their life partners than women, one group of psychologists says.Southern Methodist University psychologist Andrea Meltzer and colleagues drew on four different studies with a pool of more than 450 newlywed heterosexual couples. At the start of the studies, independent researchers scored the attractiveness of the husband and wife in each pair. Experimenters then interviewed the newlyweds and followed up later, asking them to rate their marital satisfaction on eight separate occasions over the next four years.
“Whereas husbands were more satisfied at the beginning of the marriage and remained more satisfied over the next four years to the extent that they had an attractive wife, wives were no more or less satisfied initially or over the next four years to the extent that they had an attractive husband,” Meltzer and colleagues wrote in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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