#1214 Paul Eastwick: The Science of Love and Connection
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopst, and today I'm joined by Dr. Paul Eastwick. He's professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. And today we're going to talk about his new book, Bonded by Evolution, The New Science of Love and Connection.
So Dr. Wistwick, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one. Yes, thanks so much for having me back. Okay, so I mean I would like to start, I guess that in our first conversation, we've already touched on this a little bit, but I would like to start by asking you a more general question.
So what is the psychology of attraction and close relationships and what got you interested in studying it? Yeah, so you know, this is the portion of academic psychology that I consider to be my home. Um, we are the folks who study initial attraction and ongoing close relationships. And the general idea is, you know, we want to get people's subjective experiences of What is it like to be in a close relationship?
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