relationships

  • The Future Of Online Dating Is Unsexy And Brutally Effective

    When I give the dating app LoveFlutter my Twitter handle, it rewards me with a 28-axis breakdown of my personality: I’m an analytic Type A who’s unsettlingly sex-focused and neurotic (99th percentile). On the sidebar where my “Personality Snapshot” is broken down in further detail, a section called “Chat-Up Advice” advises, “Do your best to…


  • Think Men Don’t Want To Date Smart Women? Not So Fast!

    Think Men Don’t Want To Date Smart Women? Not So Fast!

    Maybe you heard about that study that showed men don’t want to date smart women. It certainly plays into our stereotypes of how men behave, and it got a lot of press as a result. But if you actually dig into the paper, you’ll find there are some serious problems with those results.


  • Is There Really An Equation For Staying In Love?

    Is There Really An Equation For Staying In Love?

    Psychologists John and Julie Gottman spent years observing couples’ behaviour and developed a method that claims to predict a romantic relationship’s chances of long-term success. They have (of course) used what they learned to create a $US750-per-couple workshop that aims to help people become better partners.