This post is going to be brief, but I thought an excerpt from the book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", by Robert Cialdini would help illustrate a woman's need to associate with a high SMV partner.

"Physicians' wives often speak of the pressures to obtain personal prestige by association with their husbands professional stature. John Pekkanen, who authored the book 'The Best Doctors in the U.S.', reports that many enraged protests to his list came not from the physicians who were omitted but from their wives. In one instance that reveals the extent to which the principle of association dominates the thinking of some of these women, Pekkanen received a letter from a frantic wife along with her proof that her husband deserved to be on the list of best doctors. It was a photograph of the man with Merv Griffin."

This quite astutely embodies a woman's desire to be associated with, and dependant on a high SMV partner. I thought some of you might appreciate the example, and I absolutely recommend that you pick up a copy of this book!

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