The Scientific Reason We Fall In Love with Our Polar Opposite: We're all pretty familiar with the term "opposites attract" . It's practically a major story line in most romance books and movies; people who have next to nothing in common fall in love and live happily ever after. But even though Hollywood makes it seem like this is the norm, just how true is that for us? Everyone has a mental checklist of what they're looking for in partner, a lot of which revolves around having similar taste. But when you find someone who doesn't exactly follow the criteria, it makes them even sexier. Seriously, science even confirms that! In a study by European Society of Human Genetics, it was found that differences in genetic makeup actually influence our partner choice. More specifically, the study suggested that people who have "diverse major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) were more likely to choose each other as mates than those who...
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