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Why Algorithms Can’t Predict Your Love Life with Dr. Paul Eastwick

Why Algorithms Can’t Predict Your Love Life with Dr. Paul Eastwick

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos vor 6 Monaten

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Modern dating can feel like a marketplace. We’re told we all have
a “mate value,” that some people are 9s and 10s, and that the
laws of evolution determine who gets chosen — and who gets
rejected. But what if we’ve misunderstood what evolutionary
science actually says about love?

Dr. Laurie sits down with social psychologist Dr. Paul Eastwick,
author of Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and
Connection, to challenge some of the most pervasive myths about
attraction and compatibility. Do dating app algorithms actually
know who's right for you? Are we really all placed in different
"leagues"? If you’ve ever wondered whether love is destiny,
biology, or something you can actually create, Dr. Eastwick
offers a surprising new perspective.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection

“The Pairing Game: A Classroom Demonstration of the Matching
Phenomenon”

“Matching for Attractiveness in Romantic Partners and Same-Sex
Friends: A Meta-Analysis and Theoretical Critique”

“The Social Relations Model”

“Once More: Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? Relative
contributions of private and shared taste to judgments of facial
attractiveness”

“Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Revisited: Do People Know
What They Initially Desire in a Romantic Partner?”

“Northwestern Speed-dating Study I”

“Northwestern Speed-dating Study II”

“The (Mental) Ties That Bind: Cognitive Structures That Predict
Relationship Resilience”

“We’re Not That Choosy: Emerging Evidence of a Progression Bias
in Romantic Relationships”

“Romantic Relationship Status Biases Memory of Faces of
Attractive Opposite-Sex Others: Evidence from a
Reverse-Correlation Paradigm”

“Relationship Regulation in the Face of Eye Candy: a Motivated
Cognition Framework for Understanding Responses to Attractive
Alternatives”

“Perceived, not actual, similarity predicts initial attraction in
a live romantic context: Evidence from the speed-dating paradigm”

“Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to
Initial Romantic Attraction”

“Love Factually”

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