If he's hooked up, he's hot - The Globe and Mail

If he's hooked up, he's hot - The Globe and Mail


SARAH BOESVELD
From Friday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 10:20AM EDT

Excerpts:

"He's taken? Tell me more!"

According to a new study, single women may be more interested in pursuing men who are already in committed relationships, a finding that suggests women are not just griping that "all the good men are taken" - they're conspiring to get their share.

The study from Oklahoma State University looked at the impact of gender and relationship status on "mate poaching,"

Given the option, 90 per cent of women said they would pursue the attached man, while 59 per cent said they'd go for the single one, says Prof. Burkley. Their findings are published this month in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

"We found that men were over all interested in this person, but it did not matter at all whether she was single or in a relationship," she says. "[But] for the women, particularly the single women, it mattered very much. If he was single, they weren't nearly as interested."

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