7 Apr 2025

Feature interview: the romantic comedy fact checkers

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 7 April 2025

Just about everything you need to know about dating, marriage, breaking up and true love can be found in a good romantic comedy.

Professors Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel study attraction and relationships.  They fact check Hollywood's version of romance in their podcast, Love Factually.  Dr Paul Eastwick compares what  psychology, biology, and data behind relationships says with what we see on the big screen to help us understand why love sometimes makes us do crazy things, just like in the movies.

Dr Paul Eastwick

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