Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner?
- Paul W. Eastwick, E. Finkel
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 February 2008
Data revealed no sex differences in the associations between participants' romantic interest in real-life potential partners and the attractiveness and earning prospects of those partners and participants' ideal preferences, assessed before the speed-dating event, failed to predict what inspired their actual desire at the event.
Language Style Matching Predicts Relationship Initiation and Stability
- Molly Ireland, R. Slatcher, Paul W. Eastwick, Lauren E. Scissors, E. Finkel, J. Pennebaker
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 January 2011
LSM appears to reflect implicit interpersonal processes central to romantic relationships, and is associated with long-term commitment in dyads.
Online Dating
- E. Finkel, Paul W. Eastwick, B. Karney, H. Reis, S. Sprecher
- PsychologyPsychological Science in the Public Interest
- 1 January 2012
Whether online dating is fundamentally different from conventional offline dating and whether online dating promotes better romantic outcomes than conventional offlinedating are examined, psychological science employs psychological science to examine.
The attachment system in fledgling relationships: an activating role for attachment anxiety.
- Paul W. Eastwick, E. Finkel
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 September 2008
The present data indicate that such an approach to attachment dynamics between potential romantic partners before they share a full-fledged attachment bond may reveal novel insights about initial attraction processes.
The predictive validity of ideal partner preferences: a review and meta-analysis.
- Paul W. Eastwick, Laura B. Luchies, E. Finkel, Lucy L. Hunt
- PsychologyPsychological bulletin
- 2014
A new integrative model is presented that highlights when and why ideals succeed or fail to predict relational outcomes and identifies alternative measures of ideal partner preferences that have stronger predictive validity in certain theoretically sensible contexts.
Familiarity does indeed promote attraction in live interaction.
- H. Reis, Michael R Maniaci, P. Caprariello, Paul W. Eastwick, E. Finkel
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 September 2011
The more participants interacted, the more attracted they were to each other, and mediation analyses identified three processes that contribute to this effect: perceived responsiveness, increased comfort and satisfaction during interaction, and perceived knowledge.
Mispredicting distress following romantic breakup: Revealing the time course of the affective forecasting error
- Paul W. Eastwick, E. Finkel, T. Krishnamurti, G. Loewenstein
- Psychology
- 1 May 2008
Is Love Colorblind? Political Orientation and Interracial Romantic Desire
- Paul W. Eastwick, J. Richeson, D. Son, E. Finkel
- PsychologyPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- 1 July 2009
Political orientation may be a key factor that influences the initiation of interracial romantic relationships and the association of political orientation with ingroup favoritism in two live romantic contexts.
Best research practices in psychology: Illustrating epistemological and pragmatic considerations with the case of relationship science.
- E. Finkel, Paul W. Eastwick, H. Reis
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 2015
This article contrasts the false-positives-reduction (FPR) approach with an alternative, the error balance (EB) approach, which argues that any serious consideration of optimal scientific practice must contend simultaneously with both false-positive and false-negative errors.
Selective Versus Unselective Romantic Desire: Not All Reciprocity Is Created Equal
- Paul W. Eastwick, E. Finkel, D. Mochon, D. Ariely
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 April 2007
It is hypothesized that romantic reciprocity would prove more nuanced than its nonromantic counterpart, and the opposite hypothesis that potential romantic partners who play "hard to get" are desirable and individuals who demonstrate unconcealed romantic interest seem desperate and unappealing is plausible.
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