Romantically pursuing someone who's already in a relationship happens more often than many think, and research shows that in certain situations, it has a good chance of working.
? If Jessie’s girl were to find out, do you think she’d be interested in someone who purposefully tried to break up her relationship?—or pursuing someone who is already in a romantic relationship—is a nonstarter. But some psychological research suggests this may not be the case for everyone. In one study, conducted by psychologists David Schmitt and David Buss, approximately 64 percent of men and 49 percent of women reported trying to poach someone who was currently in a romantic relationship.
Mate poaching refers to pursuing a romantic relationship with someone who is currently in another relationship.Those numbers may be disheartening to read. But what’s even more disheartening is that mate poaching can be effective.
Luckily, most friends reported doing little mate poaching. But for those that did, the greater the mate poaching over time, the less committed their friend was to their current relationship. Because this dyadic study was conducted over an extended period of time, the researchers concluded that mate poaching led people to rate their current partner as less attractive, and the poacher as more attractive, over time.In a different study, researchers Alastair Davies and Todd Shackelford asked heterosexual men and women to imagine being poached from a current
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