Jandila comments on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 October 2011 06:46:07PM *  5 points [-]

Humans have emotions and don't think rationally by default. Most people do not like to feel inadequate, though how they respond to that feeling varies a great deal. Most people in a relationship also don't like to feel they were rejected sexually over some perceived inadequacy.

So when a mate gives them a 20-page lecture on their failures to hold their attraction and concludes by rejecting them as a sex partner, it's probably not vanishingly far from the null hypothesis that the person is going to get upset...