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'Love test' predicts good marriage

Summary

29 November 2013

Scientists have invented a new "love test" that they believe could predict the success of a relationship. The research, published in the journal¹ Science, suggests that a reaction to an image of a partner could give a useful indication² of the future state of a marriage.

Reporter:

Pallab Ghosh

Report

The researchers interviewed more than 100 newly-weds, all of whom said they were very happy with their partner - as one might imagine.

However, a test of their unconscious feelings towards each other showed that some of them had negative emotions which they haven’t admitted to - even to themselves. 

The test involved showing one of the couple a photograph of their partner for a third of a second. They then had to answer as quickly as possible whether certain words such as great, awesome³, horrible and scary were positive or negative words. 

If they had unconscious negative feelings towards their partner, they were quick to identify the negative words, and vice⁴ versa. 

Researchers found that those with unconscious negative feelings had them gradually surface and they admitted to being unhappy in follow-up interviews three or four years later.