Despite the laments of pining pop-stars and poets,US reseachers now think breaking up may not be so hard to do."We underestimate our ability to survive heartbreak,"said Eli Finkel, an assistant professor of psychology at Northwesterrn University whose study appears on
Finkel,and colleague Paul Eastwick,studied young lovers--especially those who profess ardent affection--to see if their prediction of devastation matched their actual angst when that love was lost."On average,people overestimate how distressed they will be following a breakup,"Finkel said.
The nine-month study involved college students who had been dating at least two months who filled out questionnaires every two weeks,They gathered da
Not surpringly,they found the more people were in love,the harder they look the breakup,"People who are more in love really are a little more upset afer a breakup,but their perceptions about how distraught they will be are dramatically overstated when compared to reality,"Finkel said."At the end of the day ,it is just less bad than you thought."
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