A new study finds most couples have similar projected life
Compatibility does not only relate to shared values and sense of humor.
When we choose the person, we want to spend the rest of our life with, we tend to focus on the same objectives, the same values,sense of humorand other compatible personality traits. But, according to a fascinating new study published in the newspaperHeredityThere is something else we are looking for in a partner that most of us did not even have:Similar projected life center.
The researchers at the University of Edinburgh have examined data on more than 500,000 married people aged 37 to 73 years in the United States. They found that a majority of couples shared similarRisk levels for the same diseasesVery the very production hut orcardiopathy-And so, they had a similar projected life. Since these risk factors are not widely visible when couples meet, researchers think that all this happens on a subconscious level.
"Our study suggests that humans tend to select partners for genetically behavioral or physical traits related to disease and longevity", "researcherAlbert Tesa, professor of quantitative genetics at the Roslin Institute of the University of Edinburgh,said in a university newsletter. "Understanding the features that must require new and long-term studies that follow hundreds of thousands of couples from the moment they meet until life when developing diseases."
When the two partners of a couple develop diseases later in life, it is often because they tend to adopt similar habits, such as smoking, an unhealthy diet orspend a little too much time on the couch. This phenomenon is known as "The ripple effect. "And the opposite is also true, which means that when someone in a relationship is committed to losing weight, their partner tends to lose weight as well, even if they do not actively decide to do it .
The study of the University of Edinburgh is the last of an increasing amount of research that indicate that there is much more that goes in the choice of the mate than to meet the eye. Previously, the 1998Study "sweat t-shirt" Discovered that women were more attracted by the perfume of a man whose immune system was the most different from their own, which makes sense on a scalable level, since a more diversified immune system leads to a healthier offspring.
The new study of the University of Edinburgh also illuminates past research on the elderly couples who die in a few months from each other, which is also called "The widowed effect." While "Broken heart syndrome"Is real, according to science, it is also possible that people have unconsciously chose someone they knew they could really be reached until the death-yourself, even when they were still young and in good health.
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