Financial Times: UB research highlighted in article on love and attraction

An article in Financial Times on the enigma of attraction and why we do what we do in love and romance looks at research conducted by psychology student Mauricio Carvallo, whose research under the supervision of Brett Pelham, associate professor of psychology, looks at why we are attracted to people like ourselves and found that given the choice of two teas, one whose name closely resembled their own and the other totally unrelated to the name, individuals preferred the tea that contained their name letters. Go to article.

Similar articles on love and attraction, which appear on Red Nova and in The New Zealand Herald reported on research by Carvallo that showed that the likelihood people would marry someone with the same first letter in their surname was 15-25 percent greater than chance, and looked at research by Pelham that found links between names and occupations.