Do you have a secret list of things that would disqualify someone from being your significant other ?
Apparently , many people do — and now those lists are not so hole-and-corner anymore .
A serial of studieson " kinship deal breaker , " published last year in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , represent " the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to infer the traits that people avoid in their mate , " the squad of social scientists behind the studieswrites .
In one of those studies , the researcher asked a across the country representative sample of 5,541 exclusive Americans to bring out which in a inclination of 17 things would be a " wad circuit breaker " when deal a " committed relationship " with someone .
The top three deal breakers for adult male and women were " disheveled or soiled visual aspect , " " lazy , " and " too needy . " Here ’s the full list :
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citizenry reported an average of six deal breakers out of the 17 on the list . man were more likely than woman to say " having kids , live too far out , spill too much , and a modest sex activity drive " were deal breaker , while char were more likely to say " lack self - confidence , being too lazy , being too necessitous , and engaging too often in boob tube / play video game " were deal surf .
responder ranged in age from 21 to 76 ; previous people tended to have more business deal breaker than younger ones , and women tend to have more deal breaker than men .
difference between the answers from men and char " were modest , " the researchersnoted , " which may be unsurprising given that men and char are more alike than different . "
While the study was great , it bank on self - study ; people ’s deal breaker may not always be what they say they are , since some may not be willing to let in their actual mess breakers or even be aware of them . There are also likely many qualities the great unwashed avoid that are not on the researchers ' list of 17 .
This is an updated version of a story that originally appear in October 2015 .
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