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09.07.2016

Researchers from Texas A&M University surveyed 120 students on the subject of romantic relationships: how close they are with a partner, how much they are attracted to each other, how much they enjoy being together, etc.; it must be added that it was not only about current relationships, but also about those that had recently ended - in this case, obviously, they measured the strength of nostalgia.

Before the survey, all participants in the experiment were given a "play with blocks": they had to fold and disassemble different structures from rectangular blocks. The trick was that some students were given blocks that were attracted to each other, others were given blocks that repelled each other, and finally, the third were given simple, non-magnetic "cubes".

Those who got attractive blocks spoke of closer relationships, loyalty, obligations to others, and in general they were more happy with relationships than those who got repulsive or non-magnetized "cubes". (In the last two groups, by the way, there was no difference in the perception of their own love relationships.)

The experiment was repeated a little later, with a larger number of participants and with only two types of blocks, attracting and simple. The result turned out to be the same, although with nuances: if the force of attraction - not to the magnet, but to the partner - increased, then the joy from the relationship and devotion to the other weakened; the authors of the work explain this by the vicissitudes in their personal lives that happened to students in the course of their studies.

We all know that they say about lovers that they are "drawn to each other like a magnet." According to psychologists, in the case of real magnets, the attraction to a partner intensified precisely because both "love", and "magnets" and "attraction" are associative connected, and social priming, contained in the metaphor of love as a magnet, worked when a real magnet was in the hands.

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