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 "name": "relationships",
 "type": "concept",
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  "the-diary-of-a-ceo-2026-06-22-dr-rachel-rubin-women-s-sexual-health-menopause-hormone-repl",
  "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id"
 ],
 "claims": [
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "People's own (positively biased) perceptions of their partner are the major driver; the evidence for deferring to the consensus that 'your partner is a jerk' is weak.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "relationships",
    "compatibility"
   ],
   "timestamp": "30:16",
   "quote": "what usually happens in relationships is that people's own impressions and perceptions tend to be the major driver.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Attachment orientations are not fixed; with enough time and the right partner, an avoidant person can become more secure.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "attachment theory",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "39:03",
   "quote": "people's attachment orientations really can change... that person will start to become less and less avoidant with time. They'll become more secure.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Couples embedded in supportive friend networks (couple friends, double dates) tend to fare better than those who outsource relationship assessment to friends as pseudo-therapy.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.65,
   "subjects": [
    "relationships",
    "social support"
   ],
   "timestamp": "45:27",
   "quote": "couples who feel like they have couple friends and are embedded in networks like that, that generally tends to go well on average.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "'Hetero pessimism' (the belief men and women can't get along) is false in the close-relationships realm; men and women want the same things.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "gender differences",
    "hetero pessimism",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:35:32",
   "quote": "Look, in the close relationships realm, it's not true... Men and women, they want the same things out of their relationships.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "People in happy relationships engage in derogation of alternatives, perceiving other potential partners as less desirable than they really are, which protects the relationship.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "derogation of alternatives",
    "monogamy",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:10:09",
   "quote": "any alternative partner that you can throw at them, they will tend to think that that alternative partner is pretty weak sauce.",
   "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": "Attraction to other people is not itself a problem for relationships; the danger is repeated, escalating follow-through.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "infidelity",
    "relationships",
    "social media"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:15:44",
   "quote": "The simple fact that we can be attracted to other people, that is not a problem for the average relationship. It's the repeated follow through on that attraction that becomes a problem.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "James Sexton",
   "reported_by": "Andrew Huberman",
   "claim": "Social media acts as an 'attack vector' on committed relationships by enabling follow-up contact, so committed people might benefit from getting off it entirely.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.65,
   "subjects": [
    "social media",
    "relationships",
    "infidelity"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:16:32",
   "quote": "That's what James Sexton is referring to when he talks about social media being a, barring other person's language here, an attack vector, you know, on a relationship.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Past relationships and divorces should not be framed as failures; they were real and had value, and people deserve grace about them.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.65,
   "subjects": [
    "relationships",
    "breakups"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:28:09",
   "quote": "if we give each other a little bit of grace and see it all as, yeah, that was the thing that happened. It was real. It mattered in that moment.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Strictly measured, longer relationship duration is on average a slightly bad sign (people were happiest early on); shared narrative, not literal time, is what matters.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "relationships",
    "relationship duration"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:31:36",
   "quote": "if we're looking strictly at relationship duration, honestly, on average, it tends to be a bad sign... it just means that over time, people were the happiest early on in their relationship than they are today.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Paul Eastwick",
   "claim": "Sexual desire is not a binary on/off switch; faded passion can be re-cultivated, so one should not be fatalistic about it.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "sexual intimacy",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:35:19",
   "quote": "the key thing for me is not to engage in fatalism about the sexual desire component, that when the passion fades in a relationship, that doesn't mean that it's gone forever.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-22-science-of-attraction-compatibility-romance-dr-paul-eastwick",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Pornography is not inherently bad; whether it's harmful depends on the relationship and context.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.7,
   "subjects": [
    "pornography",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:08:17",
   "quote": "I don't think porn in and of itself is bad.",
   "episode_id": "the-diary-of-a-ceo-2026-06-22-dr-rachel-rubin-women-s-sexual-health-menopause-hormone-repl",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "Society is in a 'sex recession' with people having less sex than ever.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "sex recession",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:33:29",
   "quote": "we're in a sex recession, okay? People are having less sex than ever.",
   "episode_id": "the-diary-of-a-ceo-2026-06-22-dr-rachel-rubin-women-s-sexual-health-menopause-hormone-repl",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "In an over-scheduled modern society, couples should schedule sex.",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.75,
   "subjects": [
    "relationships",
    "women's sexual health"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:29:30",
   "quote": "there's a big opportunity for people in our modern society, which is over scheduled to schedule sex",
   "episode_id": "the-diary-of-a-ceo-2026-06-22-dr-rachel-rubin-women-s-sexual-health-menopause-hormone-repl",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "claim": "The idea that sex should be spontaneous is a myth, not how real relationships work.",
   "stance": "assertion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "arousal",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:30:50",
   "quote": "It's just not real. It's just the same as WWF.",
   "episode_id": "the-diary-of-a-ceo-2026-06-22-dr-rachel-rubin-women-s-sexual-health-menopause-hormone-repl",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  },
  {
   "holder": "Ido Portal",
   "claim": "The make-or-break of a long-term relationship is being in the game of practice together, not sexual attraction or romantic love; hence 'I love the one who loves to practice.'",
   "stance": "opinion",
   "conviction": 0.8,
   "subjects": [
    "relationships",
    "practice"
   ],
   "timestamp": "2:03:18",
   "quote": "I love the one who loves to practice.",
   "episode_id": "huberman-lab-2026-06-29-movement-practice-to-strengthen-your-mind-body-connection-id",
   "published_at": "2026-06-29"
  }
 ],
 "predictions": [
  {
   "holder": "Rachel Rubin",
   "prediction": "AI sex robots will be able to do exactly what a person wants, raising concerns for intimacy and real relationships.",
   "timeframe": "unspecified",
   "subjects": [
    "AI",
    "women's sexual health",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:22:36",
   "quote": "You're going to have a sex robot who's going to be able to do exactly what you want and the way that you want to do it.",
   "episode_id": "the-diary-of-a-ceo-2026-06-22-dr-rachel-rubin-women-s-sexual-health-menopause-hormone-repl",
   "published_at": "2026-06-22"
  }
 ],
 "facts": [
  {
   "statement": "Researcher Mimi Brinberg at Ohio State studies couples' full text histories and finds their communication styles converge over time.",
   "subjects": [
    "Mimi Brinberg",
    "texting",
    "relationships"
   ],
   "timestamp": "1:13:57",
   "quote": "this is great researcher named Mimi Brinberg at Ohio State... their styles of communicating start to like cohere",
   "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": "2026-06-29"
}