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The research article is based on an evolutionary approach to investigate on the topic of why men fall in love more than women. Men are more likely to falling in love if they over perceive sexual interest and physical attractiveness in women. Hence, women have become skeptical in a relationship. First hypothesis shows that men will usually fall in love with most recent partner, love more partners in their lifetime, experience more “love at first sight” and more unreturned love compared to females. The second hypothesis shows that individuals who over perceive others’ sexual interest will fall in love more frequently with chances to experience “love at first sight”. The third hypothesis states individuals who value physical attractiveness will have more partners, fall in love easily with latest attractive partner and more love at first sight experiences. The fourth hypothesis shows that individuals with a higher sexual desire will fall in love easily. The methods used were online questionnaire to both sexes with a sample size of 357. A qualitative research is used in a heterosexual community. Participants are 18-year-old and above. The dependent measures are the rating scale from 1 to 7. The specific measures used are timing of love, frequency of love, frequency of “love at first sight” and physical appearance of the latest partner. In hypothesis 1, the result shows that prediction on timing is not supported as there are no sexual differences between the falling in love time. Prediction on frequency is not supported as there are no sex differences in the report number of loves. Prediction on frequency is supported as men reported to have higher percentage of “Love at first sight” cases. Prediction on reciprocation is supported as women are more likely to fall in love with expectation to be in a relationship. In hypothesis 2, the results shown that prediction on men who over perceive sexual interest from others fall in love easily. Prediction is not supported as sexual over perception did not linked with the number of “love at first sight” cases. In hypothesis 3, the results show that prediction on attractiveness does not linked with the number of falling in love. Prediction on importance of attractiveness does not link with the experience of “Love at first sight”. Hence, the high expectation of attractiveness should limit the chances of falling in love. Prediction supports that men will likely to fall for noticeable attributes of females. In hypothesis 4, the results partially supported because females with stronger sex drive will fall in love easily compared to men. The section lays out that love and sexual desire are two different feelings. Love encourages commitment and bonding between two individuals. Sexual desire leads to negative sexual related behavior. Men will pursue a romantic relationship to satisfy sexual desires which will face higher chances of unreturned love during courtship. An honest romantic loves should demonstrate time spent, effort made and resources invested in relationships. Women are unlikely experience ‘love at first sight” as much as men are justifiable because stronger context of relationship is needed before they acknowledge they are in love and develop sexual desire. Experimental design was used in this investigation. I would like to suggest two improvements to this research procedure. There is very little emphasis on the individual differences and definition of honest sign. Individual differences such as age, experiences and cultures should be taken into consideration. The honest sign is not enough to test whether a person is passionately in love with another. Additional definition of passionate love should be used to reflect honest sign in a committed relationships. I have identified two ethical considerations from this article. My first ethical consideration is individual may be confused with the feeling of love and lust. Individual who is attracted to physical attractiveness may not be experiencing true love. Love needs time, commitment and effort to transform into a long term committed relationship. My second ethical consideration is polygamy issues which will eventually lead to social problems. When men falls in love and sexually attracted based on physical appearance of the latest partner will results in more sexual activities and lead to polygamy issues. Hence, it will also lead to broken marriages and single parent issues in the society.

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Reference list Galperin, A, & Haselton, M 2010, 'Predictors of How Often and When People Fall in Love', Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 1, pp. 5-28, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 13 May 2013.