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Chasing Life

The Dating Brain in the Digital Age

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Online dating has changed the way we approach and pursue relationships. Like so much in modern life, potential partners are at the mercy of an algorithm that decides who we interact with. But has technology actually changed what we’re looking for? Can attraction and desire be predicted? Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and Chief Science Advisor at Match.com, has been on the front lines of the clash between a centuries-old phenomenon and relatively new technology. In this episode, she talks to CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta about what has and hasn’t changed about the dating brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You know, the ability to love someone being in love with someone. It's one of my

0:39.1

favorite topics. We've talked about it on the podcast before once even with my wife Rebecca

0:45.1

When I go through a challenge when you go through a challenge we have those decisions to make at the time that we were choosing the one that keeps our relationship strong.

0:56.3

Anyone that knows us well knows just how lucky I am, how lucky I feel that she's in my life.

1:02.2

And it's worth pointing out that Rebecca and I met

1:04.9

before our lives revolved around cell phones and social media.

1:09.7

And sometimes I do wonder,

1:11.5

would we have actually crossed paths, started dating, gotten married, if it

1:16.2

had all been up to an algorithm.

1:18.7

Just look at Amazon, for example, like you have like thousands of the same stuff right and so now that the game becomes how do you

1:26.3

optimize how do you engineer your way into relationship success that's Skyler Wang a visiting sociologist at Meta AI.

1:35.0

Now, he studies dating apps and social behaviors and he's noticed this expansion of choice in lots of areas of modern life. But here's the thing. Too many

1:45.7

options could be a problem. In fact, some dating apps only let users go so far.

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