- A University of Virginia study, recently published in the Journal of Psychological Science, confirms what most of us already know: when it comes to dating, women just love to torture themselves. Findings suggest that a woman is more attracted to a man when she is uncertain about how much he likes her, causing her to constantly think about him to the point of obsession.
- 47 female undergraduates participated in the study, which used Facebook as a pretense. They were split into three groups and shown the profiles of four fictional men. One group was told that the men had viewed their profiles and liked these women the most. The second group were told that the men rated them as average and the last group didn’t know about the level of the men’s interest in them. And just like a masochist, the women who found the men most attractive were this last group the ones who werent sure whether those men were into them or not.
- There may still be some naive, hopeless romantic women that likes to insist that there’s no such thing as “playing games” when it comes to dating. They would probabaly try to argue the findings of this study, but let’s face it, you’re dealing with such dillusional women. They like to think that The Rules are outdated and don’t apply to the “modern” woman, but the fact is that “keeping people in the dark about how much they like them will increase how much they think about them and will pique their interest.
- But the real question becomes, why do they like to torture themselves? Is it an inherent psychological trait or do they really just like the chase? Or… are women just masochists at heart?
Dating Study Confirms Women Are Masochists
“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drives you nuts sometimes... you want to push back immediately... you do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.”