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Couples and Looks

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t's well-known that people highly value good looks when choosing a mate, but conventional wisdom suggests that after a few years of marriage, couples begin to place less importance on each other's appearance. In fact, that's not the case, according to Todd K. Shackelford, a psychologist at Florida Atlantic University. He and researchers elsewhere surveyed 27 couples during the first and fourth years of marriage. They found that preferences for most qualities in a relationship-including similar religious background, shared political beliefs, their partner's good health, and most of all, mutual love-remained the same …