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When It Comes To Romantic Attraction, Real Life Beats Questionnaires
NPR: Dating sites claim to winnow a few ideal suitors out of a nigh-infinite pool of chaff. But the matches these algorithms offer may be no better than picking partners at random, a study finds.
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Romantic Matches Are Hard to Predict Before People Meet
Researchers could predict speed daters’ desire and desirability, but not which two people would ‘click.’
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The real reason some people end up with partners who are way more attractive
The Washington Post: You’ve probably come across those couples where one partner is significantly more attractive than the other. It’s often fodder for fictional comedy – think of oafish Homer and demure Marge in “The
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How a dating app for burrito-lovers exposed one of online dating’s biggest myths
The Washington Post: The only conceivably good thing about branded April Fools’ pranks is that they’re confined to a 24-hour period. The press releases go out; the “jokes” get mocked and aggregated; and within a
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Five myths about love
The Washington Post: Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is…detectable on an fMRI scan? Poets have written about love for millennia, but only recently has it become a subject of serious scientific pursuit. Psychologists
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Why we never really get over that first love
The Washington Post: Twenty years ago . . . She was my first relationship . . . My first boyfriend . . . I was 17 . . . She was 19 . . .
