22:05
Juan MC Larrosa
If Your Significant Other’s a Hot Mess, You Will Be, Too
By Melissa Dahl
Follow @melissadahl
NYMag
Alison Scott (KATHERINE HEIGL) and Ben Stone (SETH ROGEN) spend some quality time at the OB/GYN in "Knocked Up", a comedy about the best thing that will ever ruin your best-laid plans: parenthood.
So you’re a money-saving, exercising, healthy-eating, generally “together” type. Your significant other is … not.
It would be nice if your good habits rubbed off on your partner, but a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests the opposite is more likely: the person with low self-control will drag the couple down to his or her level.
More on the research here:
Through a series of studies involving both real-world couples and pairs...
