Finding Love & a Life Partner using Science & Technology: "Humans have been pairing off for millennia -- You can do this!"

Christine Peterson presents an evolutionary-psychology approach to finding a long-term partner, arguing that pair bonds form through dopamine and oxytocin built up before first intimacy, so it pays to delay, screen widely through dating, and evaluate safety before falling in love. She recommends explicit online-dating profiles and frames a stable relationship as a foundation for ambitious work.

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