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Speaking of Psychology

What the movies get right (and wrong) about relationships, with Paul Eastwick, PhD, and Eli Finkel, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3781 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, movies offer our earliest lessons in love and help shape our expectations about what romance and relationships might look like. Relationship researchers Paul Eastwick, PhD, and Eli Finkel, PhD, are cohosts of the podcast “Love Factually,” where they use psychology to dissect their favorite rom coms. They talked to “Speaking of Psychology” about how films depict dating and relationship truths and myths, and how well our favorite characters’ love stories hold up when analyzed through the lens of science. Please take our listener survey at http://at.apa.org/SoPsurvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For many of us, the movies offer us our earliest lessons in love.

1:06.1

From meat cutes and coffee shops to musicalenades, to dramatic airport chase scenes, romantic

1:13.1

comedies have long shaped our expectations about what love and romance might or ought to look

1:18.1

like. But how much do rom-coms get right about relationships, and how much do they get wrong?

1:23.9

And why are these types of movies often so emotionally satisfying?

1:28.3

Today we're going to talk to two psychologists who study the science of attraction,

1:32.2

commitment, and love about the real life lessons we can take from on-screen love stories.

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