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Why Relationships Matter Take our Can You Spot Red Flags In A Relationship? Find a therapist to strengthen relationships. There’s a strong prejudice in our society against romantic couples with a considerable age difference. Tabloids were abuzz when actor George Clooney announced he was marrying Amal Alamuddin
who is 17 years his junior. And when Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France
many eyebrows were raised as it came to light that his wife Brigitte was 24 years older than him. When the topic of age-gap relationships comes up
someone is bound to mention the “half your age plus seven” rule. According to this rule
you take the age of the older person
divide it in half
and then add 7 to determine the youngest age of a person that they can be romantically involved with. There’s nothing scientific about this rule
but it does reflect the general consensus that age gaps are more important at younger than older ages. For instance
an 18-year-old high school senior can date a 16-year-old sophomore
but a 21-year-old college student should only date those 18 and older. But the rule also breaks down at older ages. George Clooney was 53 when he married the 36-year-old Amal
whose age is still above his lower limit of 34. Furthermore
the “half your age plus seven” rule doesn’t explain why people look down on May-December romances. In fact
very little research has been conducted to date on this subject. However
an article recently published by Azusa Pacific University psychologists Brian Collisson and Luciana Ponce de Leon provides our first insight into the reasons behind social prejudice against age-gap relationships. Collisson and Ponce de Leon started with the hypothesis that people look down on age-gap romances because they perceive them as being unequal. Specifically
the prediction is that people will believe the older partner is getting more out of the relationship than the younger partner is. According to this view
the older partner couldn’t have attracted the younger partner on the basis of looks or personality alone
so they must have enticed them with money or other resources. In traditional societies
it’s not at all unusual for younger women to marry older men who are politically powerful and economically secure. But in modern egalitarian societies
the belief that people should marry for love—and love alone—is strong. To test their hypothesis
Collisson and Ponce de Leon recruited 99 participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
a public website frequently used to find research participants from the general population. Under the guise of a “Social Attitudes Survey
” the researchers presented the participants with 16 different male-female relationship vignettes. Embedded in these were 4 key scenarios: An older man with a younger woman. A younger man with an older woman. A young man with a young woman. An old man with an old woman. The other vignettes included mixed-race couples (Black and White)
mixed-weight couples (skinny and fat)
and also mixed-social class (SES) partnerships (rich and poor). One reason for including these other relationship types was to hide the true intent of the study from the participants. However
responses to these other mixed-couple vignettes also provided data for testing the hypothesis that people look down on age-gap relationships because they perceive them as unequal.













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