... a romantic candlelight dinner or a simple kiss. In 1991, researchers Tucker, Marvin & Vivian studied just this, what different people considered to be acts of romance or romantic behaviour. The participants were 149 women and 48 men from an American University, average age 21.4 years. Participants were instructed to list as many acts of romance they could, space for 12 responses was provided. From the study, considerable similarity was found between male and female responses, however women stated that hearing or saying 'I love you' was romantic yet men did not, and men mentioned 'making love' as a romantic act when women did not. The top three rankings for women were (1) taking walks (2) flowers - sending or receiving them (3) kissing and the top three rankings for men were (1) taking walks, (2) kissing, (3) candlelit dinner. The major problems with this study were the small ...

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