The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

How to Learn from a Rom Com Movie

Published: 10 February 2025 at 05:01 UTC

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Episode notes

In the absence of better advice, we learn a lot about love and dating from rom com movies - but is the depiction of relationships in these films leading us in the wrong direction? Let's find out. 

Eli Finkel of Northwestern University and Paul Eastwick from UC Davis are both accomplished relationship experts - but for fun they’ve launched a podcast called Love Factually exploring what the makers of rom coms get right and wrong about how humans really find love. 

 

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