Myrna Đurić

It's actually really interesting that you mentioned this because this was another thing that we tested.

So basically we were wondering, okay, you know, there are a bunch of these outlets that people might focus on to kind of get, you know, kind of fulfillment or stronger emotional reactions and enrichment in their life.

And indeed we look at, you know,

did people focus on work more?

Did they dedicate themselves to their hobbies?

Did they focus on friends and family?

Or did they start looking at alternative partners?

And what we find is actually all of these other domains.

So work, friends and family, hobbies, none of this are effects that we find.

So basically, we did not find any links with this, but it seems to be specifically, you know, when you are feeling romantically indifferent.

So when it's

linked to your romantic relationship, it's really linked to desiring alternative partners more rather than diving into your work, for example.

So it's really something unique about, you know, these romantic relationships and these emotions that we might be looking for in our life rather than, you know, just emotions in general, you know, that we might be experiencing.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's the big question, you know, for future research to try to kind of investigate that in maybe more long-term studies.

Yeah, I think, you know, exactly what you said.

One possibility is that if there is...

you know, still some emotional reaction in the relationship, like, you know, some sort of engagement with a partner, even if it is negative emotions that could, you know, still kind of signal that you are involved, you know, you're invested, you are still kind of, yeah, reacting to this person and basically kind of engaging with them in some way while they're

Indifference indeed suggests that in some way this person is not really interesting to you anymore.

You know, they're not really eliciting any kind of reaction.

They're maybe not personally that, you know, meaningful or valuable to you anymore as otherwise, you know, there would have been some sort of emotion.