Bye, Bye Love: How Men, Women Dish Out Rejection — ‘It can cut like a knife, or make your brown eyes blue. It’s romantic rejection, and a new study finds big differences in how men and women give would-be partners the brush-off.

When it came to the reasons cited most often for turning someone down, “men and women were different on every one of them,” according to researcher Dr. William F. Chaplin of the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa.

He and co-researcher Susan Reneau presented their findings here Saturday at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.’ Reuters Health via Yahoo!

[Yeah, but the study was done in Alabama! – FmH]