Research resources

Books

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

Geoffrey Miller, Ph.D. (2003)

The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating

David M. Buss (1994)

Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

Brad Wilcox (2023)

Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity—What Our Online Lives Tell Us About Our Offline Selves

Christian Rudder, Founder of OkCupid (2014)

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex

John Gray, Ph.D. (1992)

Mate: Become the Man Women Want

Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller, Ph.D. (2015)

Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game

Jon Birger (2015)

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

Don Miguel Ruiz (1999)

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Blogs

How to Choose a Romantic Partner

Rob K. Henderson

Stop Hedging, Start Marrying

Mary Harrington

We Should Really Be Having More Kids

Jack Raines

Why Is Dating Hard? The Top Reasons

Alexander & Caitlin (Date Psychology)

How to Pick Your Life Partner

Tim Urban

Are Dating Woes Reshaping Society?

Paul Skallas

More Thoughts on Falling Fertility

Lyman Stone

True Love

Lauren (@buridansridge)

Gnostic Cyborg Girlfriends

Anna Mitchell

On The New York Times and “Enforced Monogamy”

Jordan B. Peterson

Romantic Decay as Cultural Drift

Robin Hanson

On Marriage

Rohit Krishnan

I Became a Mother at 25, and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait

Elizabeth Bruenig

Does the Bush-Era Poverty Cure Deserve a Comeback?

Matthew Yglesias

Loving Because They’re Essential

Chris Lakin

Research papers

Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits

Tanya Horwitz et al., Nature Human Behaviour, volume 7, 1568–1583 (2023)

Disintermediating your friends: How Online Dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting

MJ Rosenfeld et al., PNAS, 116 (36), 17753-17758 (2019)

Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies

S Joel et al., PNAS, 117 (32), 19061-19071 (2020)

Computers in Love: Stanford and the First Trials of Computer Date Matching

S Gilmore, Sandstone and Tile, 26(2–3), 1-9 (2002)

Online Dating and Problematic Use: A Systematic Review

Bonilla-Zorita et al., International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (19), 2245–2278 (2021)

Computational courtship understanding the evolution of online dating through large-scale data analysis

R Dinh e al., Journal of Computational Social Science, 5, 401-426 (2022)

Attachment Style, Sexual Orientation, and Biological Sex in their Relationships With Gender Role

G Ciocca et al., J. Sex Med., 8(1), 76–83,(2020)

Matchmaker Competition and Technology Provision

Y Wu et al., American Marketing Association, 55 (3)(2018)

A Diverse Benchmark Dataset for Multi-Paradigm Facial Beauty Prediction

L Liang, arXiv, 1801.06345, (2018)

Dependents as Signals of Mate Value: Long-term Mating Strategy Predicts Displays on Online Dating Profiles for Men

M Zinck et al., Evo. Psych. Science, 8,2, 174-188. doi:10.1007/s40806-021-00294-w (2022)

Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets

E Bruch, M Newman, Science Advances 4,8 eaap9815, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aap9815 (2018)

Tinder Users: Sociodemographic, Psychological, and Psychosexual Characteristics

JR Barrada , Á Castro., Int J Environ Res Public Health. 17(21):8047. doi:10.3390/ijerph17218047 (2020)

Sexual Hookup Culture: A Review, Review of General Psychology

J. R. Garcia et al., American Psychological Association, 16(2), 161–176. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027911 (2012)

Love at first match.

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