Quote · Huberman Lab
Science of Attraction, Compatibility & Romance | Dr. Paul Eastwick
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Church, Activities, Small Groups & Dating; Work; Perceived Similarity
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Huberman raises the trend of young people returning to church as a values-filtered social environment, and Eastwick responds with characteristic nuance: joining church, running clubs, or improv classes probably doesn't improve your odds of finding a match with your specific value system — but it does guarantee the repeated, structured social exposure that is the most reliable engine of relationship formation. [1] — Paul Eastwick "Take every measurable trait two people have in common, run the math, and your ability to predict whether they'll click is barely better tha…" 2:04:40 The best answer science can give to 'how do I find a partner in 90 days?' is: be around people on repeated occasions. The conversation then pivots to perceived similarity — the sense that 'we have a lot in common' — which Eastwick argues is largely motivated reasoning. Because it's free-floating, couples can attach it to whatever they want, finding the commonalities that matter when they're in love and dismissing the differences. Objective trait-matching, by contrast, is basically a coin flip for predicting chemistry.
Science can't tell you which app to use or which club to join. What it can say is that being around people on repeated occasions is the most reliably effective way to form romantic relationships. Activities work because they strip away the interview dynamic and reveal who someone actually is.
