Do Spousal Intimate Relationships Affect Fertility Intentions and Preferences?

When and why do ideal partner preferences affect the process of initiating and maintaining romantic relationships?

Three studies explored how the traits that people ideally desire in a romantic partner, or ideal partner preferences, intersect with the process of romantic relationship initiation and maintenance. Two attraction experiments in the laboratory found that, when participants evaluated a potential romantic partner's written profile, they expressed more romantic interest in a partner whose traits we...

Family and Intimate Relationships

Rationalization and Cognitive Dissonance: Do Choices Affect or Reflect Preferences?

Cognitive dissonance is one of the most influential theories in social psychology, and its oldest experiential realization is choice-induced dissonance. Since 1956, dissonance theorists have claimed that people rationalize past choices by devaluing rejected alternatives and upgrading chosen ones, an effect known as the spreading of preferences. Here, I show that every study which has tested thi...

do submucous myoma characteristics affect fertility and menstrual outcomes in patients underwent hysteroscopic myomectomy?

background: submucous myomas may be associated with menorrhagia, infertility and dysmenorrhea. objective: the aim of this study was to determine the long term effects of submucousal myoma resection on menorrhagia and infertility; also to detect whether the type, size, and location of myoma affect the surgical success. materials and methods: .totally 98 women referred to hysteroscopy for symptom...

Fertility intentions and actual fertility: A complex relationship

Editorial – Fertility intentions and actual fertility: A complex relationship • Fertility intentions: a hesitant majority... p. 1 • ...which accounts for 45% of births p. 2 • Intentions, a factor among many others p. 2 • No differences between cohabiting and married couples p. 3 • The highly educated anticipate better p. 4 Box 1 – The survey on fertility intentions p.2 • Box 2 – The questions a...