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August 5, 2011

How Hot Is Your Partner? Not as Hot As You Think

Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, according to a new study finding people rate their significant others as more attractive than objective strangers do.

This "positive illusion" about a partner's hotness may help keep relationships stable, the study researchers reported in August in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Earlier research had turned up evidence that people rate their boyfriends, girlfriends and spouses as especially kind and intelligent compared with other people. No one had established whether this rosy outlook extends to physical looks, so researchers from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands tested the idea with 70 heterosexual couples.

How Hot Is Your Partner? Not as Hot As You Think - Yahoo! News

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