mind over matter

Another quickie today. My friend Megan Brown is writing a three-part series for the Daily Northwestern about her foray into online dating. Going beyond her maverick field reporting, she also spoke with an expert about the stigma attached to internet match-making:
“People don’t want to admit they have to go out and pay for a service,” […]

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Happy Valentine’s Day! I’ll make this one quick so you can get to dinner on time.
College psychology departments love throwing romantically-minded events around Valentine’s Day (witness our own Dr. Finkel’s “Can You Ever Just be Friends?” lecture, held yesterday; if I were a more intrepid reporter, I would’ve attended, but I had a category recitation […]

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I just came across a new study and did a little dance. It is fascinating, it is Valentine’s Day-appropriate, it happened here at Northwestern and - yes indeed - I know some of the subjects myself.
New research shows that men and women are looking for the same thing in a partner - but they don’t […]

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Well, it’s nearly Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air. Not the air within a ten-foot radius of me, mind you, but I’m sure it’s out there somewhere. So, since I am a hopeless romantic at heart (and making a concerted effort not to sound bitter), this week’s posts will be all […]

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