The eternal mystery of love

You have your significant other happens to meet in the pub and learned to love? Surely you can explain with a few well-chosen words, why it is precisely these had to be slightly rounded person - not the lean, tall creature from the next table. Can not you? Welcome to the club! Why do we fall in some people and not others, is such a fascinating and unanswered question. Many scientists suspect, however, that we choose the object of our desire not aware that so unconscious impressions make a person attractive to us.

Just follow your nose, this could be the motto of the search for the ideal man or woman's dream thus. In the animal kingdom at least in the works: mice sniff out whether your potential partner adapts genetically to them. The rutting boar sprayed the pheromone androstenone, a chemical messenger that makes the pig into submission.

Researchers also suspect a similar mechanism in humans. In fact, studies show: Even in matters of love may we follow our sense of smell. Women were allowed in the name of science extensively used to sniff men's T-Shirts and conclude on the attractiveness of the shirt wearer. They chose, unconsciously, the right person for each genetically their own. Whether pheromones in humans really intoxicating effect, is controversial - all the promises in spite of the perfume industry.
DC and a feather flock together

Plausible seems that we pay particular attention to how the man or woman looks at the bar. A well-proportioned face, we find not just as attractive, it probably indicates that a person is really healthy - and has good genes. And while most heterosexual men judge women more for their attractiveness is, heterosexual women sometimes more important to the economic status of the man.

Not always, these differences are significant: The greater the prosperity of a culture is and the man and woman are equal, the less their desires differ in mate choice - a testament to that cultural achievements can superimpose biological factors. The show also sociological studies: When did you meet your true love, for example in the introductory lecture for law students, this is normal. Couples often come from the same social milieu.

Also, psychologists say, like attracts like joins. Relationships are conflict free and therefore stable when both have similar attitudes or a similar social status. And books, films and education also affect the course of our ideas about intimacy.