Word: mating
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...willing to have spouses chosen for them by their friends and family, marry them and allow their subsequent domestic life to be broadcast on CBS. (Because what could possibly go wrong in your first year of wedlock to a stranger?) Other lonely hearts have already submitted to having their mate-finding woes aired on cable. Yes, there have been dating shows before, but none quite so DIY as three offered by FLN, the network formerly known for fancy cooking and curtain-choosing. Wingman, in which comedian Michael Somerville acts as a dating sidekick, premiered Feb. 10. How to Find...
...come to this? Is dating really that hard? Sociologists have long agreed that the two key factors of mate choice are proximity and timing. We choose from those around us, generally two to five years after we finish our education. But at least one of those pillars is eroding. Online dating has meant that our pool of potential mates is much bigger. The opportunity cost of giving up on a potential suitor is lower. And it's more work to find the wheat in all that chaff...
...University sociologist Dalton Conley, whose book Elsewhere, U.S.A. examines how our work and domestic realms collide. "Social proximity is more defining now," he says. "It's class- or occupation-based. Doctors marry doctors instead of nurses." Conley points out that in the past 30 years, the social norms for mate selection have completely flipped: there are fewer prohibitions on whom you can marry, most women work outside the home, and the digital dating landscape is a whole new terrain. "The last change of this significance was the introduction of the Pill," he says...
...where Helen Fisher comes in. A biological anthropologist at Rutgers University, she combed through reams of genetic literature and analyzed the answers to 40,000 surveys she conducted on the dating site Chemistry.com for which she is a paid adviser. Her research led her inside the biological mechanisms of mate choice. In Why Him? Why Her?, Fisher posits that there are four broad temperament types--"explorer," "builder," "director" and "negotiator." Each of these types is expressive of a different neurochemical system: dopamine and norepinephrine; serotonin; testosterone; and estrogen. Using the data from Chemistry.com she observes which type is drawn...
...nation mourned and opened its arms to comfort those who had lost a child or a mate or all they owned, police delivered more chilling news: some of the fires had been deliberately lit. "There's no words to describe it other than it's mass murder," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said. Rudd spoke too of rebuilding towns "brick by brick, school by school, community hall by community hall." Getting over the heightened fear of nature's fury might take longer...