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taken, women everywhere, need to lock up their men for fear that
single women will try to snatch them up - or so a recent study
published by the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is
being interpreted as reporting.  The Oklahoma State University
study suggests that single women prefer men that are already in
committed relationships - that they "mate-poach."   Researchers
used photos of men, accompanied by statements that the men were
either single or in a relationship. The women then responded to
each photograph.  The findings suggest that single women were
more likely to pursue the committed men over the single men.
There is something to knowing that a man is married or in a
committed relationship that makes them seem harmless.  Women let
their guard down and share stories with these men.  They freely
develop friendships without qualms  that what they are saying
will nix them fr