Survey results revealed that 82.1% of respondents feel personality
is most important in a romantic partner.

They may like it, but extroverted people are less likely to put a ring on it.

Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Hogan’s vice president of research and innovation, and his colleagues surveyed more than 16,000 people to examine how personality influences relationship style. They found that extroverted people tend to be more passionate in their relationships, where conscientious people tend to favor intimacy and commitment. Agreeable individuals tend to be intimate, committed, and passionate.

They also found that two out of three relationship styles were significantly related to how long a relationship lasted. People with a committed relationship style tended to have longer-lasting relationships, where passionate relationship style was negatively related to relationship length. That is, if you tend to be more passionate, your relationship is likely to end more quickly.

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Did you know your personality could be slimming?

In a 2010 article in the Journal of Social Psychology, Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, vice president of research and innovation at Hogan, and colleagues examined the influence of personality information on men’s ratings of the physical attractiveness of photographs of women varying in body size from emaciated to obese.

Their results showed that personality information had a significant effect on the range of body sizes that participants judged to be physically attractive. Providing positive personality information resulted in participants rating a wider range of figures as attractive compared with the control group. Negative personality information resulted in a constricted range of figures being rated as attractive.

How else is your personality affecting your love life?

Although it sounds like the plot from dozens of bad romantic comedies, recent research suggests that who you are on the inside (your personality) is more important than how you look when it comes to catching the eye of that special someone.

Hogan recently asked 1,177 participants what was most important in a romantic partner: physical attractiveness, personal style, earning potential, education, social status, or personality.

Respondents were 40.3% male and 59.7% female.

82.1% said personality was most important in a partner
5.5% said personal style
4.9% said physical attractiveness

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