Secrets of the sexes. [Episode 3], Love

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Is your brain wired to think like a man or a woman? Are females really more talkative, men less emotional? And what does the ratio between the length of your 2nd and 4th fingers have to do with it?...

Is your brain wired to think like a man or a woman? Are females really more talkative, men less emotional? And what does the ratio between the length of your 2nd and 4th fingers have to do with it? We might have been conditioned to think that men and women are the same but as this series reveals, we are utterly, fundamentally different. And we've been destined to be so since the dawn of our species. Not only that, but not all men have male brains nor women female brains: 'body sex' and 'brain sex' are not the same thing. In three vivid, intriguing episodes, covering six major areas of sex difference - emotional recognition, empathy, communication, basic cognition, competition, and brain anatomy - science is put to the test with real people leading real lives. The result is an often hilarious, sometimes provocative and always informative and entertaining journey, destroying myths and uncovering startling new truths about what defines the genders. Discover how a little confidence can go a long way in companion series, How to Get Lucky. Half of all new marriages end in divorce but scientists say they've found the secret of long lasting love. They claim they've identified how love works and can even tell which marriages will make it. If so, can they save couples whose relationships are on the brink of collapse? Lyn and Alan have bickered for 21 years and are contemplating divorce. Hayley and Jay have been married for seven years, but Jay's recent affair has put their marriage under intolerable pressure. Along with starry-eyed newly weds, Steve and Donna, our warring couples go through a battery of experiments to see what's going wrong. We find out whether being out of love affects how we physically see our partner, and in one of the most daunting stress tests known to psychologists, how our physiological reactions to conflict threaten love. Armed with new understanding of each other's biochemical and psychological behaviour, Lyn and Alan, Hayley and Jay embark on a programme designed to rescue their relationships.

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