{"id":25129,"date":"2020-03-11T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=25129"},"modified":"2020-03-11T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:48:04","slug":"love-is-blind-but-not-according-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/love-is-blind-but-not-according-to-science\/","title":{"rendered":"“Love is Blind” … But Not According to Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Love is Blind, the Netflix reality show about singles “falling in love” and getting engaged – without ever having seen each other – while chatting and getting to know each other in segregated “pods”. Yeah, this is where we’re at, everyone. It’s been a worldwide phenomenon, but according to science, the premise isn’t very solid – Love actually has pretty great vision, and for good reason!<\/p>\n

Via Glamour:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPsychologists believe that emotional connection is the key to long term marital success\u2014NOT physical attraction,\u201d explains the show\u2019s co-host, who introduces himself as \u201cobviously, Nick Lachey.\u201d But that\u2019s not exactly true.<\/p>\n

Despite Lachey\u2019s claim on behalf of the show, psychologists\u2014and researchers, and sociologists, and couples counselors\u2014actually tend to agree that physical attraction and physical touch are important ingredients in the tricky-to-mix cocktail of long-term affection.<\/p>\n

“Emotional and sexual aspects of intimacy in romantic relationships are important correlates of couples\u2019 relationship satisfaction,\u201d Yoo, et. al,\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy<\/em>\u00a0in 2014. In a study of 335 married couples, those researchers found that \u201csexual satisfaction significantly predicted emotional intimacy for husbands and wives, while emotional intimacy did not appear to have a significant influence on sexual satisfaction.\u201d The concept of\u00a0Love Is Blind<\/em>\u00a0builds emotional intimacy, but doesn\u2019t allow physical contact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So basically what they’re saying is that OBC has it right – putting an emphasis on physical compatibility can actually be more important when trying to find a real connection!<\/p>\n

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Love is Blind, the Netflix reality show about singles “falling in love” and getting engaged – without ever having seen each other – while chatting and getting to know each other in segregated “pods”. Yeah, this is where we’re at, everyone. It’s been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-and-sex","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25131,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129\/revisions\/25131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}