The Less We Love a Woman, the More She Likes Us: Pushkin's Observation Explained

Authors

Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

7-2020

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-20-77

Abstract

Alexander Pushkin, the most famous Russian poet, made this observation in "Eugene Onegin", his novel in verse which is most known to non-Russian readers via Tchaikovsky's opera. This observation may not be an absolute truth -- there are counterexamples -- but the fact that it is still widely cited shows that there is some truth in this statement. In this paper, we recall the usual utility-based explanation for a similar statement, and propose a new explanation, which is even more fundamental -- it is on the biological level.