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"It could be the times, both economical and social, or it could be an evolutionary hangover, but it appears women are more skeptical than men regarding spending money early on in a relationship. Moreover, women demonstrate an evolutionary trait of being better than men at not letting passing moods influence their &amp;amp;#8220;rational decisions,&amp;amp;#8221; according to a study from Arizona State University. Those in the study were given perspective situations: gaining or losing $100 or getting a 30 percent boost in their financial assets, and then asked how happy or unhappy those situations would make them. Losing money loomed larger, but that changed when participants were asked to answer the question while pretending they had just had a romantic encounter with someone they found highly attractive, reported Science Daily. For the study &amp;amp;#8220;Research participants were asked how happy or unhappy it would make them to gain or lose $100, or to experience a 30-percentile boost in their financial assets. As in previous research, losses typically loomed slightly larger than gains. But all that changed for participants who answered the questions in a mating frame of mind (after imagining themselves having a romantic encounter with someone they found highly attractive),&amp;amp;#8221; Reported the paper. Arizona State University professor Douglas Kenrick, and doctoral student Jessica Li found a connection between spending impulses and evolutionary perspectives on mating (for our purposes, let&amp;amp;#8217;s call it &amp;amp;#8220;dating). &amp;quot;For men in a mating frame of mind, loss aversion completely disappeared and they became more focused on wins than losses. For women, on the other hand, mating motivation led them to be even more loss averse, to focus less on possible gains and even more on the pain of loss.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;#8220;These results, which will be published in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, apparently contradict the stereotype that women are less rational and more emotional than men when it comes to money.&amp;amp;#8221; Additionally, it reinforces the notion that we have evolved to behave in ways that give us the best opportunity for our genes to be passed along. &amp;quot;These new findings are controversial because they contradict the assumption that economic decisions in the modern world are determined at the conscious level. Instead, it seems that biases our ancestors developed millions of years ago affect decisions we make today&amp;amp;mdash;in ways that influence our finances for years to come,&amp;quot; Kenrick told Science Daily. I suspect this news will have little affect on my personal finances, given that I tend to pay on dates (probably for my own evolutionary reasons of trying to pass on my genes). That said, in the future I&amp;amp;#8217;ll do so with a greater understanding why, although I may not offer up said explanation&amp;amp;#133;especially on a first date. Are you less careful with money when making decisions that involve your love life? Have a question about Dating, Relationships, or Sex for Single John? Submit it here. Can be totally Anonymous! More on Dating at Glamour.com Finally! A Step-By-Step Guide to Improving His Oral Game Do Men Always Want More Than Friendship? Nope: 4 Guys Confess the Best Reasons To Have (and Keep) Female Friends More Ways to Get Glamour: Chat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;amp;#8217;s schedule Download Glamour Magazine for your iPad--print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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