How Love Really Works

Psychologist Paul Eastwick joins Hidden Brain to explain why the qualities we say we want in a romantic partner are surprisingly poor guides to who we actually fall for, and why attraction is so hard to predict. He lays out what the research suggests is the best way to meet someone you'll genuinely connect with. Then, in a "Your Questions Answered" segment, psychologist Ed Lemay takes listener questions about projection — how we read our own thoughts and feelings into other people, and how those projections shape our relationships. Subscribers get a companion conversation with Eastwick about online dating apps.