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"You know how in Disney movies, when the princess falls in love, she&amp;#39;s always like, dreamily dancing around, smelling roses and sweetly petting the animals who flock to her or some such? Seems like in reality, Cinderella would be less &amp;quot;So this is love, la da di da&amp;quot; and more &amp;quot;I will cut anyone who tries to dance with the prince.&amp;quot;\nPinterestFacebook&amp;quot;He loves me, he loves me not, and that girl he works with is an ugly beast.&amp;quot;\nAccording to new research, love isn&amp;#39;t all baking a cake made out of rainbows and smiles. LiveScience recently discussed a study that shows that love comes with a dark side. In a series of experiments, people who were primed to think about how madly in love they are were more inclined to put down members of their own sex and to be more aggressive toward them. The studies were conducted amongst 130 people in long-term relationships. Unsurprisingly, the participants who self-identified as the jealous type were more likely to get extra negative towards other attractive people, even--seriously!!--choosing a more painful form of punishment as part of a computer game. Oh my God lovebirds, you need to lighten up!\nOn the final experiment, even the non-jealous types got a little nasty. Participants were asked to help evaluate prospective daters for a dating site (who were designed to be as appealing as can be...attractive, outgoing, fun-loving, interesting, possibly diamond-pooping, etc.), and those who were reminded of their deep loves for their partners, jealous or not, rated the dates as unattractive, unfriendly and other insults.\nThe researchers concluded that love functions to protect the relationship and maintain it in the future, even if that means acting out to eliminate threats. Hmmm. I understand wanting to protect your relationship, but this seems like a faulty way to do it, logistically. OK, I&amp;#39;m not saying I&amp;#39;ve got a perfect track record when it comes to stupid jealousy, but I don&amp;#39;t really see how calling another girl ugly would exactly protect your relationship. It&amp;#39;s not like rating her as unattractive would mean your boyfriend wouldn&amp;#39;t find her attractive, right? Plus, it just seems really negative, and I don&amp;#39;t think guys are super enthusiastic about catty women.\nOf course, this study is not just about girl-on-girl crime. Men were participants, and the article doesn&amp;#39;t note any difference in behavior between the sexes, so guys are equally guilty of this kind of petty behavior towards their fellow men. But ladies, I think we&amp;#39;re better than this. Let&amp;#39;s all agree to work on feeling positive towards other women, even when we&amp;#39;re so in love we assume everyone is out to get our men, mmmkay?\nAre you the jealous type? Does your guy get nasty about other dudes? Do you get negative towards other women? Do you secretly think I&amp;#39;m trying to steal your boyfriend right now?\nMore on the dreaded, green-eyed monster:\n&amp;quot;Help! My Boyfriend Won&amp;#39;t Let Me Have Guy Friends, Even on Facebook!&amp;quot;\nWhen Is It Alright to be Jealous? 5 Tips For Dealing With Jealousy in Relationships\nJealousy Stinks! So, Why Can&amp;#39;t We Avoid It?\nPhoto: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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