Science and the singles

You’ve tried speed dating. You’ve tried night classes, internet chat rooms, hanging round the ready meal section at your local supermarket and even drinking your weekly alcohol allowance in one night and talking incoherently at attractive strangers. But you still can’t seem to find your ideal partner. So perhaps you should consult a psychologist.

It's not you, honestlyNot because there’s something wrong with you. There are loads of single people out there, as all single people are told by a caring friend at some point. It's becoming more true every day: the number of single folk is increasing almost as rapidly as the range of new ways to cater for people who are single to mingle.

A scientific match?
The latest method involves Personal Construct Theory (PCT), a psychological theory that was developed in the 1950s by a former psychologist from the Aviation Psychology Branch of the US Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Now obviously he wasn't worried about lonely marines. He developed a way of looking at human behaviour involving profiling, which looks at how individuals see the world. His theory has been updated a bit and is now applied to the dating game.And this is why you could be seeing seeing a psychologist: they may be able to tell you something about your personality with a view to building up a profile that leads to a scientific match. They could even predict what you and your new partner end up arguing about.
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