Three minutes to find your love
14 February 2005
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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Psychology researchers analysing Speed Dating information has shown that it takes less than about 3 minutes to figure out if you would go out with your prospective partner. Robert Kurzban, of the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, who led the study of 10,526 anonymous participants of HurryDate explained that "Although they had three minutes, most participants made their decision based on the information that they probably got in the first three seconds," He further explained that. "Somewhat surprisingly, factors that you might think would be really important to people, like religion, education and income, played very little role in their choices." The study will be presented in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. |
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