Dr Paul Eastwick
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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And this was one of the first things we studied 20 years ago.
We knew that the men in our sample would say they cared about attractiveness more than women.
And we knew that the women in our sample would say they cared about ambition more than men.
But when we sent them speed dating, what you saw was like, oh, ambition is a mild aphrodisiac.
They like the ambitious guys more than the non-ambitious guys, but...
The men like the ambitious women a little bit more than the unambitious women.
And there was no gender differences.
And that was the first thing that clued us in that like, whoa, maybe when men say they want these things, they're misunderstanding their own preferences in some ways.
And same thing for women, too.
I would say that probably the thing that has stood out the most is, you know, what I just mentioned.
So ambition, earning potential.
These are, you know, they inspire romantic desire a little bit.
People are like a little bit happier in their ongoing relationships if they think their partner is ambitious and successful, for example.
Right.
But that's really one where we've seen there's no gender difference in that overall effect.
People find this a little shocking, like, well, what about the findings where, oh, like relationships were more likely to break up when the woman earned more?
A lot of those things haven't held up to various confounds.
So even if you look in the macro trends,
You basically see this as well, that like the mismatched pairings, you know, mismatch from a gendered perspective.
So women earning more than their partners, there's really no costs to that.
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