India, Feb. 14 -- Popular culture - whether it is Hollywood or Bollywood movies or even fictional characters from our favourite romance books - has led us to believe that men are more romantic than women. Even during Valentine's Day, you see men proposing or confessing their love, doing grand romantic gestures or more. But is that actually true?

According to experts, it may depend on how one defines romanticism and the cultural and societal expectations that may influence romantic behaviour. Per a 1989 study that developed the romantic beliefs scale - widely used in research to measure how strongly someone agrees or disagrees with romantic ideas such as love at first sight - men were more likely than women to endorse the ideology of roma...