This video was streamed live on February 10, 2022
Spring is coming and the stores are full of red hearts and candy. What does science have to tell us about how we fall in love, and with who? What makes us swipe left or right, and does that have anything to do with successful relationships? Joining us to discuss these questions and more are two psychologists who study attraction and attachment:
- is a professor of psychology and runs the at аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ Davis. He investigates how people initiate romantic relationships and the psychological mechanisms that keep couples happy and committed to each other.
- is a professor of psychology at аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢ Davis and a core scientist in the . She studies the neurobiology of pair-bonding and biparental care in prairie voles and titi monkeys, species that form lasting monogamous bonds.