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  • Hey there. Welcome to Life Noggin.

  • Is it harder to find love than ever before?

  • In this modern age of social networking and dating apps, surely it's easier to find love with the growing population!

  • There are already over seven billion people on this planet, so there's more people to choose.

  • From now, anyone of those seven billion wanna come over and eat some pizza bagels with me?

  • So, are more people better?

  • Not according to "The Paradox of Choice".

  • Popularized around ten years ago, this theory states that the more options a person has,

  • the more likely they will not make a decision, or be unhappy with the one they choose.

  • Rather than liberate someone with a greater freedom of options, we're so over encumbered with choices that we can't move.

  • I knew I should have paid more attention to those dang notifications in Fallout!

  • When it comes to the modern dating scene, one of the biggest places to find a ton of perceived options is the realm of dating apps and websites.

  • Furthering the theory that more options isn't better, scientists recently found that the more dating profiles a person looked at,

  • the more likely they were to remember details of the profiles "incorrectly".

  • And that's not very good if you're trying to find the love of your life.

  • They also found that people typically expect more difficulty, less enjoyment, and more romantic regret when they have a lot of people to choose from.

  • Their participants usually expected about 20 to 50 choices to be ideal.

  • Keep in mind, this focused on what people "expect" to happen, not necessarily proving what "will" happen.

  • However, a separate study also said more online dating options were overwhelming,

  • further making participants stray from what they wanted in a partner at the beginning of the study.

  • So, would it be better to have no options at all?

  • That doesn't seem to work, either, according to what scientists are calling "the Single Option Aversion."

  • This is where a person is unwilling to choose an option, even an "attractive" one, when there are no competing options.

  • Contrary to the Paradox of Choice theory, the Single Option Aversion shows that the more choices, the better.

  • So, if you only have one option, it's probably pretty hard to find true love.

  • Unless that option is me, of course.

  • Still got those pizza bagels!

  • So, this would mean it's easier to find love now.

  • Back in the past, transportation limited you to a very small social network, meaning you might have had only a couple of options, maybe even just one.

  • But, to conclude it was harder to find love back then would be assuming people back in time had the same thought processes that we do now.

  • Keep in mind these physiological studies we looked at were done in recent times, not back in the 1700's.

  • it's pretty tough to totally say if it's harder now than ever before to find love, even if the evidence seems to point that way.

  • But there is one thing we know for sure: many people found love in the past and many people have found love now.

  • To all my love bugs out there, if love is what you want, then I hope you find it.

  • And if you can't find any humans, there is plenty of Blocko to go around.

  • So, what do you think?

  • Is it harder to find love than ever before?

  • Or do you think it's even easier in this modern age of technology?

  • Let me know in the comments below.

  • This episode got me thinking:

  • Is love even real?

  • Why do we feel this intense sensation?

  • There's actually a lot of science behind it, so you should check out this video.

  • Let' start off at a chemical level.

  • Scientist believes that there are 3 main neurotransmitters involved with attraction, dopamine, adrenaline and serotonin.

  • Dopamine makes you feel good and it have the same effect on the brain as doing cocaine.

  • Wow!

  • Couples often show high signs of dopamine levels resulting in higher energy, suppressed hunger, higher ability to focus and less need for sleep.

  • There 's a link in the description if you're on mobile.

  • As always, I'm Blocko and this has been Life Noggin.

  • Don't forget to keep on thinking!

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