Should we be more scientific about love?

Beyond Today

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It’s 14 February, in theory the most romantic day of the year, but not so fun if you’re single. Is there a rational way to find love in the era of big data? Justin Rowlatt presents Business Daily on the BBC World Service and has spoken to a multi-millionaire Ed Conard, who says he has the business-like answer. We also hear from Dr Helen Fisher from the Kinsey Institute, who is also the scientific advisor for the dating site Match.com. She tells us about the science behind attraction. Read more about Ed Conard here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47230107 Producers: Philly Beaumont, Duncan Barber, Jaja Muhammed. Editor: John Shields. Mixed by Nicolas Raufast.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:06.9	Hello, I'm Tina Dehele and this is Beyond Today, the space to ask one big question about
0:11.7	one big story.
0:13.0	Today, should we be more scientific about love.
0:27.0	Don't laugh!
0:29.0	Okay, let's try that again.
0:31.0	It's February the 14th today and we all know what that means.
0:37.3	A quick listen to Beyond Today obviously, followed by Oyster, Champagne and maybe favorite love songs, or perhaps a fancy supermarket dinner for two.
0:46.0	What's not to like?
0:48.0	Well that assumes you have a partner and not everyone does.
0:51.0	So we decided to focus today's episode on all the single
0:54.7	people out there. Later in the episode we'll get tips from a love scientist on
0:58.5	how to meet the perfect person, but first of all we got producers Harriet Lucien, Georgia in the studio.
1:05.0	Happy Valentine's Day!
1:07.0	Happy Valentine's Day to you as well.
1:09.0	Give me some more enthusiasm please.
1:12.0	Well, we're all here because we're the the single
1:15.0	members of the beyond day team so it's not the most kind of enthusiastic day.
1:20.0	What's your approach to dating in general, Georgia?
1:25.0	My dating life is so tragic you could probably write a really long and sad book about it.
1:31.0	Why? I don't know.
1:33.4	I've just, I've had a few failed dates.
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