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Is it harder for attractive people to date?

The social psychologists at Harvard University found that while it isn't difficult for attractive people to find a partner, they are less likely to maintain long-term relationships, as there is a link between beauty and break-ups. This is perhaps proven in the love lives of Hollywood's elite.

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It is often believed that the better looking you are the luckier you are in life and in love. We grew up watching films where the pretty girl got the guy and the less attractive girls were flawed and so weren't seen as love interests. Or, sometimes the less attractive girls were actually beautiful all along, but it takes a makeover for them to attract the attention and get the guy (ahem Mean Girls, Clueless, John Tucker Must Die...) We are quick to put the better looking people on a pedestal and we're easily jealous of them. Not to mention that good looking people are generally believed to earn higher salaries than unattractive people and are able to command attention wherever they are, meaning they have access to a greater number of opportunities, including within their dating lives. However, a new study by Broadly upends this entirely. It has found that those who are more physically attractive are less lively to have fulfilled love lives than those who are less attractive.

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The social psychologists at Harvard University found that while it isn’t difficult for attractive people to find a partner, they are less likely to maintain long-term relationships, as there is a link between beauty and break-ups. This is perhaps proven in the love lives of Hollywood’s elite. A beautiful A-lister doesn’t stay single for long, or if they do it is not without great admiration, but beautiful A-list couples rarely last a life time. Director of the study, Christine Ma-Kellams, said: 'Attractiveness gives you more options in terms of relationship alternatives, which might make it harder to protect a relationship from outside threats. In this sense, having too many other choices is likely not beneficial for relationship longevity.' Could it be that having so many options in life because of good looks can cause a person to become complacent when in a relationship, and so have less relationship satisfaction? Ma-Kellams says in order to have relationship longevity ‘an attractive person should be mindful of their own limitations and not rely too heavily on their own appeal.’

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What race is the shortest?

The average Bhutanese person is 159.46cm (5 fet 2.77 inches) tall. The average Bhutanese man 165.30cm (5 feet 5.07 inches) tall. The average Bhutanese woman is 153.62cm (5 feet 0.48 inches) tall.

Height varies a lot around the world — and some countries come far behind. Using medical data, INSIDER calculated average height figures for the 25 shortest countries.

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Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy 25-year-old Junrey Balawing from the Philippines was awarded the title of world's smallest living man in September 2015. He is just 59.9cm (1 foot 11.58 inches) tall. Although he is the most extreme example, he is part of a broader scientific phenomenon: Filipinos are among the shortest people on earth. INSIDER compiled a ranking of average height data from a medical database run by NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, a project linked to Imperial College London. It lists separate figures for male and female height in each country — we took an average of these two figures to give a rough idea of how tall the average person is in the country, and also listed the separate male and female figures.

Scroll down to see the 25 countries at the bottom.

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