{"id":14225,"date":"2016-06-27T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2016-06-26T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:43:41","slug":"people-with-poor-romantic-prospects-seem-to-engage-in-riskier-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/people-with-poor-romantic-prospects-seem-to-engage-in-riskier-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"People With Poor Romantic Prospects Seem To Engage In Riskier Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062616_1939_PeopleWithP1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Association for Psychological Science wrote about a study that examined the behavioural impact of having bad dating prospects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A series of experiments suggested that if people believe that gender ratios in their area are skewed in a way that lengthens the odds of finding a romantic partner, they are more likely to engage in risky behaviour.<\/li>\n<li>From an evolutionary perspective it sort of makes sense. If it&#8217;s difficult to find a mate then high risk-high reward behaviours and a willingness to do whatever it takes may be the way to go.<\/li>\n<li>Crucially though the high risk behaviour isn&#8217;t limited to finding a mate \u2013 those with poor romantic prospects seem to engage in risky behaviour in all domains in life.<\/li>\n<li>Thus people who struggle to find a date may engage in high-risk behaviour related to investments, gambling, and sports.<\/li>\n<li>In countries such as India and China with heavily skewed gender ratios this has implications for the kinds of societies that such pressures may create.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the experiments and their methodology over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2016-04\/afps-frp041516.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2016-04\/afps-frp041516.php\">Eureka Alert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association for Psychological Science wrote about a study that examined the behavioural impact of having bad dating prospects: A series of experiments suggested that if people believe that gender ratios in their area are skewed in a way that lengthens the odds of finding a romantic partner, they are more likely to engage in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/062616_1939_PeopleWithP1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14228,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions\/14228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}