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<em>By DAN RESITONE<br>
KIRO Radio</em>

Just how much of an impact do electronics and economics have on your love life? New research from two colleges indicates their effect on Cupid's arrows might be bigger than you think.

The big brains at Stanford University found being online at home means you're more likely to find love, or at least a relationship.

Professor Michael Rosenfeld says these days, cupid carries a keyboard, not a bow and arrow.

"These days the internet has pretty much taken over almost every other way people in the U.S. meet their mates," said Rosenfeld. "It used to be friends, or work, but now it's all about online."

Just over 82 percent of adults who have internet access at home also had a spouse or romantic partner, compared to just fewer than 63 percent of adults who did not have access to the worldwide web.

Meanwhile, at Cornell, researchers found the more a man depends on his woman to put bread on the table, the more likely he is to go looking for sugar elsewhere.

According to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, in the most extreme cases, where a man is completely dependent on their partner's income, that man is five times more likely to cheat that a man who makes the same as his female partner.

It seems they're prowling to make up for feeling like "less than a man" in the money department, even if it might mean they lose their meal ticket.