Paul Eastwick
Paul Eastwick is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the science of human mate selection, romantic attraction, and relationship dynamics. His published work investigates ideal partner preferences, mate evaluation theory, dating behaviors in virtual and in-person settings, and measures of relationship quality.
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Publications
- In-Person and Virtual Dates are Comparable, But People Don't Know It.
- Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures.
- Large language models can detect verbal indicators of romantic attraction.
- The support-deficit perspective is now the parsimonious explanation for gender differences in human mating.
- How Do People Feel About Mates?
- A worldwide test of the predictive validity of ideal partner preference matching.
- No gender differences in attraction to young partners: A study of 4500 blind dates.
- Experimental Tests of the Role of Ideal Partner Preferences in Relationships.
- Promotion- or Prevention-Focused Self-Evaluation and the Preferential Pursuit of More Desirable Romantic Partners.
- Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences.
- Mate evaluation theory.
- Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations.
- Initial impressions of compatibility and mate value predict later dating and romantic interest.
- Measurement invariance of the moral vitalism scale across 28 cultural groups.
- Experiences of liking versus ideas about liking.
- Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies.
- Best Practices for Testing the Predictive Validity of Ideal Partner Preference-Matching.
- Explaining illness with evil: pathogen prevalence fosters moral vitalism.
- Editorial.
- What do short-term and long-term relationships look like? Building the relationship coordination and strategic timing (ReCAST) model.
- Toward an Integrative Framework for Studying Human Evaluation: Attitudes Toward Objects and Attributes.
- The Psychology of Close Relationships: Fourteen Core Principles.
- Consistency and inconsistency among romantic partners over time.
- "Going out" of the box: Close intercultural friendships and romantic relationships spark creativity, workplace innovation, and entrepreneurship.
- Replicability and other features of a high-quality science: Toward a balanced and empirical approach.
- Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction.
- Dominant, open nonverbal displays are attractive at zero-acquaintance.
- Power and the pursuit of a partner's goals.
- Best research practices in psychology: Illustrating epistemological and pragmatic considerations with the case of relationship science.
- Jealousy increased by induced relative left frontal cortical activity.
- When does familiarity promote versus undermine interpersonal attraction? A proposed integrative model from erstwhile adversaries.
- Leveling the Playing Field: Longer Acquaintance Predicts Reduced Assortative Mating on Attractiveness.
- (Psychological) Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Effects of Psychological Distance and Relative Intelligence on Men's Attraction to Women.
- The predictive validity of ideal partner preferences: a review and meta-analysis.
- Is a meta-analysis a foundation, or just another brick? Comment on Meltzer, McNulty, Jackson, and Karney (2014).
- Relational mate value: consensus and uniqueness in romantic evaluations.
- The many voices of Darwin's descendants: reply to Schmitt (2014).
- Trust and biased memory of transgressions in romantic relationships.
- Sex differences in succumbing to sexual temptations: a function of impulse or control?
- The evolutionary armistice: attachment bonds moderate the function of ovulatory cycle adaptations.
- Online Dating: A Critical Analysis From the Perspective of Psychological Science.
- Language style matching predicts relationship initiation and stability.
- Familiarity does indeed promote attraction in live interaction.
- When and why do ideal partner preferences affect the process of initiating and maintaining romantic relationships?
- Implicit and explicit preferences for physical attractiveness in a romantic partner: a double dissociation in predictive validity.
- In live interaction, does familiarity promote attraction or contempt? Reply to Norton, Frost, and Ariely (2011).
- Possible selves in marital roles: the impact of the anticipated division of labor on the mate preferences of women and men.
- Is love colorblind? Political orientation and interracial romantic desire.
- Beyond the pleistocene: using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating.
- Arbitrary social norms influence sex differences in romantic selectivity.
- Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner?
- The attachment system in fledgling relationships: an activating role for attachment anxiety.
- Selective versus unselective romantic desire: not all reciprocity is created equal.