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SINGLE WOMEN FIND ?TAKEN? MEN MORE ATTRACTIVE: ?Burkley and Parker speculate that single women may ?

By Glenn Reynolds

SINGLE WOMEN FIND “TAKEN” MEN MORE ATTRACTIVE: “Burkley and Parker speculate that single women may be more drawn to attached men because they’ve already been ‘pre-screened’ by other women and found to be satisfactory as a mate, whereas single men are more of an unknown quantity. Burkely said that similar mate-poaching strategies have been reported in birds and fish. But previous studies of people had only asked whether participants found other potential partners attractive, so she designed hers to specifically probe whether participants would pursue a relationship.”

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