{
 "name": "attraction",
 "type": "concept",
 "episodes": [
  "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick"
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "The marketplace/mate-value model describes initial attraction when people first meet, but it breaks down as people get to know each other.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "mate value",
    "evolutionary psychology"
   ],
   "timestamp": "5:07",
   "quote": "The marketplace ideas, I think they definitely have their place... I think it describes well what happens in initial attraction settings when people are really meeting for the first time.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "As people spend time together, agreement about who is desirable breaks down (idiosyncrasy rises), which lets less consensually-desirable people find partners.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "compatibility",
    "mate value"
   ],
   "timestamp": "6:18",
   "quote": "We stop agreeing about who the eights are and who the fives are. And people might, on average, say that you're a six. But if I've gotten to know you over time, it means there's a chance I think you're a nine.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Idiosyncratic disagreement (compatibility) has been missing from evolutionary narratives but is core to how couples actually get together.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "compatibility",
    "evolutionary psychology",
    "attraction"
   ],
   "timestamp": "8:20",
   "quote": "it's this level of sort of disagreement or the emergence of what we might call compatibility that I think is, it's been missing from the evolutionary narratives. But I think it plays a core part in explaining how couples get together as well.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Attraction often forms slowly when two people spend time together pulling unique things out of each other, not from an instant spark.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction"
   ],
   "timestamp": "10:45",
   "quote": "attraction can form when two people spend that time together sort of pulling unique things out of each other.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Dating apps reward the most popular people and amplify inequality ('a kleptocracy'), unlike regular acquaintanceship.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "dating apps",
    "attraction",
    "mate value"
   ],
   "timestamp": "18:13",
   "quote": "when you look at who gets the right swipes and who receives messages on the apps, it's the most popular people... it's basically a kleptocracy.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "In relationships that work out, the typical first impression is 'middling,' not an instant top-of-the-scale spark.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "compatibility"
   ],
   "timestamp": "25:53",
   "quote": "if you look at what most relationships look like, and you look back at the beginning, the typical first impression is middling.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "People should trust their own taste in partners the way they trust their taste in food or music, rather than over-weighting others' opinions.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "compatibility"
   ],
   "timestamp": "31:43",
   "quote": "if people just treated their taste in people, in music, in art, in experiences, the same way they treated their taste in food, everyone would be a lot better off.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Approaching strangers romantically is a 'weird modern skill' and low-yield; meeting people gradually through friends and shared time works better for most.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "dating"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:03:47",
   "quote": "approaching strangers is, especially in a romantic or sexual context, is very, very tricky, very challenging, and it is a weird modern skill, because we actually evolved in environments where you didn't actually meet that many strangers.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "When evaluating real people met face-to-face, men and women value the same traits (attractiveness, ambition) to identical degrees; gender differences appear mainly in stated preferences.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.85,
   "subjects": [
    "gender differences",
    "attraction",
    "mate choice"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:31:28",
   "quote": "the magnitude of that preference was identical... There's no gender differences in the extent to which these traits appeal to men and women when they're evaluating like real people they've actually met.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "You should believe your subjective experience when interacting with someone, rather than your stated trait preferences.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "dating"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:34:35",
   "quote": "believe your subjective experience when you're interacting with somebody and you're getting to know them.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "What people say they want (abstract filters) is largely uncorrelated with what they actually end up liking once they meet someone face-to-face.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "mate choice",
    "attraction",
    "dating apps"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:53:47",
   "quote": "what people think they want doesn't match up with what they actually end up liking. Once they meet somebody face-to-face.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "The field cannot prescribe specific tactics for finding a partner; the general advice is just to be around people on repeated occasions.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "dating",
    "socializing",
    "attraction"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:58:27",
   "quote": "I'm embarrassed to say my field can't answer that question... my answer is always just be around people on repeated occasions.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Esther Perel",
   "reported_by": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Monogamy can thrive, perhaps even better, when people acknowledge rather than suppress their continuing attraction to others.",
   "stance": "steelman",
   "conviction": 0.6,
   "subjects": [
    "monogamy",
    "Esther Perel",
    "attraction"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:13:14",
   "quote": "people assume that monogamy could thrive despite the inputs and monogamy could thrive perhaps even better if people acknowledge this aspect of self that is still attracted to other people.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Feeling attraction to (or receiving attraction from) someone outside the relationship can rebound and increase desire for one's own partner, but not in reverse.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "monogamy",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:13:48",
   "quote": "when we feel a sense of attraction, it can rebound onto our partner. By the way, it doesn't happen in the reverse.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Rating one's partner as a 'good lover' is among the strongest predictors of how positively one feels about the relationship and whether it continues.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "sexual intimacy",
    "relationship satisfaction",
    "attraction"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:38:10",
   "quote": "feeling like this person is a good lover, or likely to be a good lover, in the case of the attraction scenarios, is a very, very good sign for how positively you feel about the relationship in general, and whether you want the relationship to continue.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  }
 ],
 "predictions": [],
 "facts": [
  {
   "statement": "When making brief binary 'hot or not' judgments about the same person, two people agree only about two-thirds of the time.",
   "subjects": [
    "attraction",
    "mate value"
   ],
   "value": "~two-thirds agreement",
   "timestamp": "18:13",
   "quote": "you and I are gonna agree about like two-thirds of the time. So that's better than 50-50, but it's far from 100%.",
   "source": "Paul Eastwick",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  }
 ],
 "first_seen": "2026-06-22",
 "last_seen": "2026-06-22"
}