Jealousy Trouble? Measure Your Lover's Ears

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LONDON (Reuters) - If you are worried about jealousy ruining your love life, here's the latest scientific advice: try measuring your partner's ears. Or feet.

Researchers have found that asymmetrical people are more likely to be jealous in love than those who are symmetrical.

Scientists have long shown that people whose faces and bodies are the same on both sides are considered more attractive and have an easier time attracting mates.

William Brown of Dalhousie University in the Canadian city of Halifax wanted to test how that effects jealous behavior, one of the strategies people use to keep their lovers from roaming, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday.

"If jealousy is a strategy to retain your mate, then the individual more likely to be philandered on is more likely to be jealous," Brown said.

He looked at 50 men and women in heterosexual relationships of varying degrees of intensity, and compared paired features such as feet, ears and fingers to see who was symmetrical.

The volunteers then filled in a questionnaire already used in other studies to test who was jealous in love.

Brown found that lopsided people were considerably more likely to be jealous lovers, with symmetry possibly accounting for 20 percent of the difference in romantic jealousy between people.

Brown also tested whether lopsided people were jealous in other areas, such as work, but found that asymmetrical people are not more jealous in general -- just, alas, in love.


http://www.reuters.com/news_article....toryID=1359803

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I've heard this before, but I don't know from where.. And, no, it wasn't on Fark earlier today!

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Originally posted by chort1313
I've heard this before, but I don't know from where.. And, no, it wasn't on Fark earlier today!

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